The New Mutants

You know what? It's nowhere near the disaster you'd probably imagine.

Even a mangled bit of Whedonese about a toad struck by lightning could benefit a superhero story this starved for character.

The concept behind The New Mutants is a solid, intriguing one that could've reinvigorated the familiar origin superhero story. Instead, Boone opts for genericism, ending the X-Men franchise with an angsty-teen whimper.

The New Mutants tramples over its own comic book credentials in order to chase after a concept already more convincingly dealt with by The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

An idiotic, nonsensical, and weirdly cheap attempt to take the stories in a new direction.

Fox's last X-Men movie is an unholy mess... Out of the wreckage, a cult classic has been born.

Josh Boone and Knate Lee deliver a reasonably entertaining screenplay out of the generic zone of the superhero genre, packed with detailed character development and decent horror sequences, especially having in mind the low budget.

The New Mutants is an interesting film. I both liked and disliked it, either way, I would definitely watch it again. Anya Taylor-Joy was a clear standout...

[The teen horror genre] analogizes the fear of our formative years with the fear of the supernatural. And the X-Men comics created a metaphor about the unease of adolescence through characters with powers that manifest in puberty. I love the pairing.

“The New Mutants” is a hard-to-embrace grind.