After 17 years as Wolverine, Hugh Jackman is apparently calling it quits. If so, critics love his finale. In Logan, Wolverine believes himself to be one of the world's last remaining mutants. Then he meets a mute girl with claws just like him. Here's what critics are saying:
- At the AP, Sandy Cohen explains this is not your typical superhero movie: It's R-rated, darker and grittier than most, and "packs an emotional wallop." But Cohen is not complaining. "If this is indeed Jackman's last Wolverine film, he's going out in heartfelt, high-class style," and perhaps leaving his legacy in the capable hands of 11-year-old Dafne Keen, whose "fight scenes are as thrilling and bloodletting as any of Wolverine's."
- "It's a Marvel" with "the kind of topical frisson and intensity that The Dark Knight had nine years ago, and no superhero movie has enjoyed since," Chris Klimek writes at NPR. Jackman is "tremendous," while the film as a whole restores lost "integrity and emotion" to the series, he writes. "Subtle? No. Powerful? Just you wait, Bub."