Critic Reviews for X-Men: Days of Future Past on Moviebuff.com

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is the best in the franchise and possibly the best superhero film yet this year

Justin Craig, Fox News

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and diving head first into spoiler territory

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is a better than but not substantially different from other superhero movies

Simon Abrams, Roger Ebert

'X-Men' movies has always been in the actors, and the way they and the film makers effortlessly ease us into a world where some people are born with superpowers

Joe Neumaier, Daily News America

The film also has its serious dramatic sides, during which it focuses on personal relationships, philosophical ideas and historical incidents

Ed Symkus, Wicked Local Boxborough

'X-Men' director Bryan Singer gets back behind the wheel to provide another good reason for mutant pride

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

The best X-Men film since the second one, this sequel/prequel/reboot trashes the ’70s with élan

Nick De Semlyen, Empire Online

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' follows four X-Men flicks and two Wolverine spinoffs

Bill Wine, CBS Local

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the best X-Men movie

Ed Symkus, Chelmsford Independent

And every so often a particularly impressive action sequence pops up to keep things interesting

Bruce Ingram, Sun Times

There’s no denying that 'Days of Future Past' is the most ambitious X-Men movie to date, stuffed full of ideas, overflowing with action, and almost exploding with characters, plot points and twists

Brendan Connelly, Bleeding Cool

'Days of Future Past' can set many things right that, for so many fans, went so wrong with last stand and it does

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

Where 'Days of Future Past' ends up may not be entirely to everyone's tastes, but judged on its own terms this is a movie that delivers excellent performance and brains to compliment its bang-for-your-buck spectacle

Simon Reynolds, Digital Spy

The problem here is an absurdly convoluted screenplay that leaps back and forth in time in a manner that is both confusing and increasingly irritating

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' - A movie that uses action to define character and has the skills to make you care about outcasts in a society that hews spinelessly to the norm

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

'Days of Future Past' does manage the improbable task of combining almost everything that we love about the X-Men series, in one place

Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Times of India

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' cleverly combines the cast of the original trilogy with members of the more recent X-Men: First Class

Neil Rosen, NY1

Hugh Jackman’s acting, after his turn in Les Miserables, has climbed to a new plateau

Dwight Brown, BlackPressUSA

'X-Men' go forward to the past, or possibly sideways to an alternative present

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

X-Men: Days of Future Past only conveys the awesome strangeness of its characters and their universe

Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is most everything we would hoped the summers earlier popcorn pictures would be - fun

Roger Moore, Courier-journal

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is a remarkable achievement

Mark Hughes, Forbes

'Days of Future Past' may just be that about interesting enough to keep dipping into the pool, but not good enough to not see in it reflected glory

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

No skyscrapers blow up, no cities are leveled, and while the White House and a football stadium suffer some serious structural damage, the wholesale destruction of human civilization is kept to a refreshing minimum

Justin Chang, Variety

And every so often a particularly impressive action sequence pops up to keep things interesting

Jennifer Lawrence, Sun Times

The film squanders both of its casts, reeling from one fumbled set-piece to the next

Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

It is the best, most complete and most entertaining X-Men movie we’ve ever seen

Sean O'Connell, Cinema Blend

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' ends on a qualitatively high note, with action scenes and emotional moments even casual fans will understand

Carla Meyer, The Sacramento Bee

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is that the film manages to mix the older and younger casts together in a story that puts time travel at its center and actually manages to pull it off

Ed Symkus, The Newburyport Current

Non-devotees might struggle, but director Bryan Singer whips up the action towards a symphonic climax

Steve Rose, The Guardian

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' picks up some years into the future as the end product of that war is revealed to be the impending extinction of mutants worldwide at the hands of giant, adaptive robots called Sentinels

Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is a tremendously entertaining film thats gorgeous to look at and satisfying to the core

David Blaustein, ABC News

'X-Men: Days Of Future Past' feels not just like an X-Men comic book, but like an X-Men comic-book crossover, the semi-regular events where heroes from different series get together to tackle a threat none of them could face alone

Matt Singer, The Dissolve

Whilst this might upset some fans, these are of course to be expected for a colliding dual universe of so many characters

Ben Gourlay, TweakTown

An action-filled adventure, faithful to the comics its based on

Cat Collins, SciFiNow

The first half is entertaining enough though it drags a little in wrapping things up, but the impressive visuals make sure you get your money's worth

Santa Banta Source, Santa Banta

The film cuts back and forth in time, but the majority of Past takes place, appropriately, in the past

Tim Stack, Entertainment Weekly

'Days of Future Past' is exactly the film X-Men fans have been hoping for, and one that sure to please even the most critical fans

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is so triumphant because of how effortless he makes connecting the dots seem, Its an epic that could not be more Byzantine on paper but scans with ease on screen

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly