2019 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Dark Phoenix
Directed by Simon Kinberg1h 54m2019
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
Our read: Dark Phoenix (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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