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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
In this cheerfully perverse origin tale of Magneto, Professor X and their mutant team, Vaughn delivers a fireworks display of action, smarts and fun, plus a touch of class from actors who can really act.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
McAvoy and Fassbender are a casting triumph. These two have, yes, real star magnetism, both individually and together: They're both cool and intense, suave and unaffected, playful and dead serious about their grand comic-book work.
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
This prequel draws new energy from supersmart casting, plus the shrewd notion of setting the beginnings of the X-Men saga in the early 1960s.
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80
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
Audacious, confident and fueled by youthful energy.
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80
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NPR Scott Tobias
It's not the artistry of X-Men: First Class that's particularly striking; though it's finely crafted, the film feels less the product of a visionary director than of the Marvel movies machine working at maximum efficiency.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
This X- Men is indeed first class: an exciting, bold and thoroughly enjoyable summer blockbuster.
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70
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Movieline Stephanie Zacharek
So while X-Men: First Class at first takes its source material with just the right amount of self-deprecating seriousness, it founders in the second half, when it becomes overburdened with squirrelly plot mechanics and an excess of self-evident dialogue.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
An elaborate origins story with more datelines than an issue of Condé Nast Traveler (Oxford! Miami! Argentina! Poland!), X-Men: First Class has some fun trying to explain how Professor X, Magneto, and all those mopey mutants came to be.
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60
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's big, bright, savvy, and so expansive you'll undoubtedly leave feeling you got your money's worth.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
Uneven, occasionally silly, true, but it's also an improvement over 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand."
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40
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
A tedious two-plus hours. There were such possibilities in the origins idea.
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