![]() With New Mutants finally out, we’re taking a look at all the X-Men movies ranked by Tomatometer. Since then, the X-Men franchise has spread out in myriad ways, with highlights including adapting the time-splitting classic Days of Future Past, the Western-inflected Logan (nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar!), and introducing the meta Merc With A Mouth Deadpool into the mix. The relentless X2: X-Men United brought true action to the series, before hitting the skids with The Last Stand and the writer’s strike-afflicted X-Men Origins: Wolverine. ![]() During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed. A bit tall to play Wolvy, but he had the chops (and literally, the muttonchops). In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. After their home planet was destroyed by a cosmic force, the surviving DBari followed it across the universe in their spacecraft, hoping to harness its power for themselves. Oh, and capture some lightning-in-a-bottle casting with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The DBari were a race of shape-shifting aliens that originated from an unnamed planet that was destroyed by the Phoenix Force. Meanwhile, the X-Men proved the ensemble superhero movie could work: Just take off the yellow spandex, add some millennium-era leather, and retain the franchise’s outsider allegories. The story originated in the 1976-77 comic book series Uncanny X-Men when Grey is. There's a sort of limbo period in the middle-act of Days of Future Past, before the apocalypse gets averted, and that's where the original films fit into. Dark Phoenix centers on Jean Grey and the much-feared Phoenix force. In the world of superhero movies post– Batman & Robin implosion, Spider-Man showed they could still be fun, Batman Begins demonstrated gravitas, and Blade got its cut with R-rated gruesomeness. Dark Phoenix makes it annoyingly relevant. All rights reserved./courtesy Everett Collection) All X-Men Movies Ranked
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