Elegiac, brutal, and a whole lot of other things superhero movies generally don’t try to be, Logan is both a fitting swan song for Hugh Jackman’s 17-year career as the most famous X-Man and a film that pushes the genre forward. When an aging Logan — slowly dying from an illness he refuses to acknowledge, and trying to care for a diseased Charles Xavier — encounters a young girl just like him, he’s forced to reckon with a life of violence and whether or not it can be redeemed. A modern Western that sets about the rare task of giving a superhero story a definitive ending, Logan is easily one of the most thoughtful and rich superhero films to come our way since The Dark Knight. Available December 9.
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