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"Seamlessly melding Marvel mythology with Western mythology, James Mangold has crafted an affectingly stripped-down stand-alone feature, one that draws its strength from Hugh Jackman's nuanced turn as a reluctant, all but dissipated hero." - The Hollywood Reporter. "Logan isn't always a satisfying movie, but there's a very satisfying answer to those questions waiting for viewers at the end of it. Satisfying not only because Mangold resolves things with some brilliantly expressive imagery, or because he endows this story with a no-shits-left-to-give honesty that defies its origins and justifies its spectacular violence and salty vocabulary, but because it proves how iconic Jackman has made this character over the last 17 years." - IndieWire. "It's something no-one could have expected: a creatively risky superhero movie. And it deserves to pay off." - The Telegraph. "Logan is The Dark Knight of the mutant-filled X-franchise, a gripping film that transcends the comic-book genre by saying something important — and for Logan, that means coming to grips with needing loved ones in his life." - USA Today.Finally, it appears that someone has realised that they can't compete with the scale of Disney and Marvel, so they're aiming in a different direction, giving adults what they want in the packing of something we're used to, but with something completely different going on underneath. Imagine if that was the same mentality that Warner Bros. took on with their licences, and we got a very adult Batman movie in which he isn't trying to save Gotham from blowing up, but goes down a smaller, more intimate and by extension more intense route. We've seen (oddly enough, via Marvel) that smaller scale is better suited to some characters, with the likes of Daredevil and Jessica Jones on Netflix. 20th Century Fox followed up on that on the big screen with Deadpool and now Logan, and are doing it themselves on the small screen with the new critical darling Legion. Look, we don't want big brash blockbusters to come to an end because very few movies make our jaws hang agape in the IMAX screen like when we go see the latest Avengers movie. But we do enjoy that we're finally getting some variation, and Logan might bring an end to that nasty superhero fatigue if it can spur on other comic book movies to start heading out in new directions, too.

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