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Dueling Critics

starstarstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Bob Graham - SF Examiner
starstarstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Bob Aulert - culturevulture.net
starstar Andy Seiler - USA Today
starstar Michael Wilmington  Chicago Tribune

The X-Men environment is as convincing and intriguing as that of The Matrix, but the new film has far more texture

- Philip Wuntch

[A] multimillion-dollar superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons

- Michael Wilmington

X-Men

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In the not-too-distant future, a race of mutants develops on Earth and its members are divided about their role in society. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Tyler Mane, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Ray Park, Anna Paquin, Matthew Sharp. Director: Bryan Singer (2000, PG-13)

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