Logan

The ending of "Logan"... works in a bold and poignant way, providing the kind of closure that any story could be proud of.

Logan is a melancholic paen to the Western with enough blood and gore to redefine what a comic book movie can and should be.

The superhero movie is a major American genre, and one that is malleable for the silly and the profound. And Logan is the most profound one yet.

Logan ventures to all the places superhero movies have tended not to go.

Make no mistake, Logan earns its tears. If Jackman and Stewart are serious about this being their mutual X-Men swan song, they could not have crafted a more heartfelt valedictory.

Jackman and Stewart are why Logan works-why the film doesn't feel like a cheap exercise in bloody violence, and its subversion of typical superhero-movie tropes feels organic.

Fortifying a film with references to another can definitely be worthwhile, but to define a film with another limits the experience.

I love how the film transcended the superhero genre to become a tragic western. The most emotional superhero film ever made.

There are no punchy jokes or one-liners. There are no colorful, larger than life characters. Mangold’s tone remains intensely serious and his characters are broken and struggling.

An uncommon comic book film that transcends its label, Logan engages through its harmony of post-modernism and serious treatment of complex characters.