Review of Dark Phoenix (2019) by Dom Sinacola for Paste Magazine — 05 Jun 2019
Dark Phoenix was always destined to fail. Limiting the sprawling story to one main arc severely debilitates the original’s emotional resonance, but avoiding Apocalypse’s swollen plot and stakes-less character narratives means reigning in an essentially big saga and cutting all of its awe down to some rote CGI.
To make this work in one movie is to deny the essence of the source text.
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This review of Dark Phoenix (2019) was written by Dom Sinacola and published by Paste Magazine on 05 Jun 2019.
Dark Phoenix has generally received positive reviews.
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