X-Men: First Class (2011)

A step in the right direction that wasn’t quite witty enough to renew our faith in this series, First Class got some mileage out of casting Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy as the young Magneto and Xavier. But it lacked imagination in its embrace of a 1960s setting, relying on too-obvious retro design cues, and the let’s-save-this-cash-cow desperation was difficult to ignore.

Read THR‘s film review here.