Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
I liked it a lot.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
It's the end of the world as we know it - because we've seen it in a dozen other superhero movies by now.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It's basically a closing chapter to a feeble trilogy that started out pretty well and then ran out of gas, and now must serve as a prequel to shadowy X-related endeavors yet to come.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Unlike some of the cheesier remnants of the '80s, we'll probably want to see more of these new X-Men.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
What makes X-Men: Apocalypse so exciting isn't really any one thing but rather its cohesion, its storytelling verve.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The latest in the X-Men movie franchise is just X-meh.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Disappointingly [succumbs] to an exhausting case of been-there-done-that-itis.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"X-Men: Apocalypse" isn't a catastrophe, but you may find it lacking.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
At times, "Apocalypse" can be great fun, even if it doesn't know when to hand its car keys to a friend and ask to be taken home.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Singer's fourth X-Men film is not just a step down, it's a fall down the stairs.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
Comic fans will be mystified. Movie fans will be confused. Everyone will leave disappointed.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
There's no spark, and everyone lumbers through the motions. The apocalypse, it turns out, is deadly dull.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
It's not the first deflating X-Men picture, but it's the first from director Bryan Singer, who now has four of these under his belt, including the original.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It feels flat, disjointed, with too many moving parts.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
The property is running on bald tires, and, for all its ear-splitting racket and lavish effects, "Apocalypse" is the barest of retreads.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
I found myself loving this strange, straight-faced operetta that embraces everything from Gregorian chanting to East German punk to Flock of Seagulls

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Despite the undeniable presence of a huge amount of action, X-Men: Apocalypse is decidedly a case of more is less.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
Without a compelling villain, it's hard to resist feeling like it's just more of the (mutated) same.

Name : Sandy Cohen / Alias : Associated Press
The film is fun in its own right with its grand scope and great special effects, and it doesn't require a viewer's knowledge of its predecessors to be enjoyed, even if those who already know the characters get an even bigger payoff.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Marks a shocking letdown from Singer's earlier contributions; what once soared now slogs.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Enough already. Singer throws so much mutant at us that nothing sticks. I was almost rooting for Trump to impose a quota.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Much of what makes X-Men: Apocalypse legitimately interesting also makes it frustrating and lopsided.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No surprises here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil.

Name : Brian Lowry / Alias : CNN.com
Those who have seen the previous "X-Men" movies will likely feel motivated to keep their run complete, and over 2 hours and 23 minutes, they mostly get their money's worth.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
It may be too much to ask for cinematic lightning to strike three times, as X-Men: Apocalypse, which has some exhilarating scenes, ultimately turns into the kind of lumbering, special-effects-laden spectacle that the previous films mostly avoided.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
The movie seems dull and bloated.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : New York Times
For every lively moment, there's a reminder that the franchise is tiring. The genre's emphasis on potential mass death is obsessive and unimaginative.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
"X-Men: Apocalypse" moves along tidily, but you watch thinking that all this used to be a lot more fun.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : TIME Magazine
If all this sounds wildly entertaining, it's not.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Why is Bryan Singer even making this? Does he remember?

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Mostly . it's the same old story: Bad mutants versus good mutants, with the fate of us humans - mostly off-screen, disturbingly expendable - hanging in the balance.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Piece by piece, Singer fits this ninth film in the franchise (which includes Deadpool) into the X-Men universe like a master puzzle maker. He does it so well, at least in terms of storytelling, that the X-Men franchise still has a vigorous future.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Some of the franchise stalwarts, such as Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique, are given too little to do. Most are given too much.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Don't believe the negative hype. Though sluggish and overlong, the ninth film in the franchise has some entertaining moments.

Name : Dawn Burkes / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Apocalypse may be noisy, but one thing is clear: It's a setup. And that's worth watching.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is turning into the season of superheroes battling other superheroes, but "X-Men: Apocalypse" is the first one, so far, to do it right.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I've seen worse this year. And better.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Even the hardcore geeks who like to get their Comic-Con on might be feeling a little superhero fatigue right about now. Still. You owe it to yourself to see Quicksilver do his thing.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
As a superhero movie in general and an X-Men movie in particular, Apocalypse delivers everything a viewer could reasonably expect from it.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Apocalypse isn't quite a dog. But it is a movie with way too much of everything except the things that should matter the most - novelty, creativity, and fun.

Name : Mara Reinstein / Alias : Us Weekly
Don't bother unless you have a deep emotional investment in the history of Professor X's hair loss and Jean Grey's skills set.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
Apocalypse is an effort to catch up to that grander mode of comic-book storytelling, but its epic scope is a mile wide and an inch deep.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Enormous goings on keep going on, and on, in "X-Men: Apocalypse," a collection of explosions, eruptions and conflagrations that suggests the implosion of a franchise.

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
Like Oscar Isaac in that first scene, Apocalypse loses its humanity early on, and never figures out what to replace it with.