“Dark Phoenix” is an origin story ... with the school’s founder and her surrogate father, Prof. Charles Xavier (James McAvoy). What’s more, it raises issues of ethics, power and plain ...

“There’s always a speech, but nobody cares.” In fact, a good deal of Dark Phoenix is about Charles Xavier being confronted with his own hubris. The most satisfying confrontation by far is ...

Dark Phoenix ends not with its main character ... believes that humans and mutants can never co-exist. We also meet Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X (Patrick Stewart), who wields mind-reading ...

Magneto was a villain in earlier X-films, but in “Dark Phoenix” we learn that even good guy telepath Charles Xavier has done horrible things. Magneto was a villain in earlier X-films ...

Professor Charles Xavier, or Magneto. Dark Phoenix’s iteration of the Jean Grey story doesn’t deviate much from the version Kinberg wrote in the criminally horrendous X-Men: The Last Stand ...

Ten years post-Apocalypse, Charles Xavier now ... film only refers to as the “Phoenix” due to some clever PR—annihilates those barriers, showing Jean what Xavier kept from her and sending ...

There’s no cool montage of her and Charles testing ... and in need of therapy. Dark Phoenix isn’t a story about Jean, but about the men around her. Ultimately, Xavier even decided how to ...

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is very much a story about the ... by the Phoenix Force after growing up under the leadership of Charles Xavier. As the story will go, Charles will learn a great deal about ...

asks 8-year-old Jean Grey, standing outside Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters ... That is, of course, the general story of Dark Phoenix, the latest film in the X-Men franchise.

“Dark Phoenix” climaxes with a literal jolting ... Others, notably Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), main man of the X-Men, wants to deprogram and save her. Advertising In the early ...

Once again, Professor Charles Xavier has been slain on-screen by ... Famke Janssen as Dark Phoenix (L) and Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch (R). Again, this isn’t the first time an all-powerful ...