{"id":32653,"date":"2013-02-28T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/movie-review-x-men-first-class.html"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:00:06","slug":"movie-review-x-men-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/movie-review-x-men-first-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "X-Men: First Class""},"content":{"rendered":"
I don't appear to have written a review the first time I watched this, but watching it again with Kay this evening made me remember why I liked the first 90% of it so much, and the last 10% … well, still a fair amount but not quite so much.<\/div>\n

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Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of X-Men: First Class (2011) on Letterboxd.com<\/a>
\n I like this movie. A lot. Largely because it’s a super-hero movie that doesn’t focus overly much on the super-heroics. And while the super-powered bits are like to make a comic book fan go squee, it’s…\n <\/p>\n

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I don't appear to have written a review the first time I watched this, but watching it again with Kay this evening made me remember why I liked the first 90% of it so much, and the last 10% … well, still a fair amount but not quite so much. 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