Fresh
It's a relief to come across a blockbuster that finds a location and stays there, rather than hopping desperately from one place to the next ...
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
The Wolverine
When he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous.
2013 · 2h 6m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
James Mangold
Overview
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Getting [Wolverine] to the movie's above-average finale required three writers - Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank - to pad the plot.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Fresh
It restores the tarnished lustre to this most fan-beloved of Marvel characters by doing precisely what Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's near-sacred 1982 run did: It pumps some feeling into the guy along with his muscles and steel talons.
Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Director James Mangold's film features some breathtakingly suspenseful action sequences, exquisite production and costume design and colorful characters, some of whom register more powerfully than others.
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
Too quickly the random fights pile up -- so many yakuza thugs who forgot to wear chain mail that morning -- and you yearn for the film that might have been.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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