Arts & Entertainment

MOVIE REVIEWS: 'The Wolverine' Stays Sharp

Hugh Jackman plays 'The Wolverine' in the latest X-Men installment.

"The Wolverine" is rated PG-13 and runs 2 hours and 6 minutes. Click here for movie times in and around Canton.

Here's what the critics are saying:

Less immediately apparent than the quality of the action is the subtle and welcome change the filmmakers have wrought in Wolverine. Of the mutant superhero X-Men, he was always the sad sack . . . but in "The Wolverine," he is less angst-ridden, and more angry and motivated, which activates the movie. — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A refreshing summer cocktail of action-movie staples, “The Wolverine” combines the bracingly adult flavor of everyone’s favorite mutant antihero with the fizzy effervescence of several mixers from the cabinet of Japanese genre cinema. . . . It goes down super smooth but packs a punch. — Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post

It has all the requisite special effects and big-ticket action sequences . . . but it also has an unusually intimate, small-scale feel. — A.O. Scott, The New York Times

The smaller scope and lighter tone of their film is a tonic after bloated doom and gloom of Man of Steel. — Ian Buckwalter, NPR 

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