X-Men: Days of Future Past

"With Bryan Singer returning to the X-Men series and the film tapping into one of the comic books' most well-regarded storylines (written and drawn by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, the guys who made the X-Men cool), X-Men: Days of Future Past represents the franchise's best opportunity for something special in a while."

"Touches genuine chords of feeling over the course of the film’s fleet 130-minute running time."

"Singer has refreshed the series with blasts of his original entries’ X-factors..."

"If you come to [the franchise] fresh, it can be like trying to follow two games of chess at once."

"Shot through with a stirring reverence for the Marvel Comics characters and their universe."

"Several parts of the story feel undernourished... But what we do get here is largely fantastic."