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Movie ID: 783
RT slug: the_new_mutants
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_new_mutants
Release year: 2020
Runtime: 94 mins
Wide release date: 2020-08-28
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 36%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Directors: Josh Boone
Writers: Josh Boone, Knate Lee
Producers: Karen Rosenfelt, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg
MPAA rating: PG-13
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:11:03
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:11:03
Five young mutants held in a secret facility discover their abilities while confronting the terrifying forces that have shaped their pasts.
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Canonical reviews: 136
Canonical fresh: 49
Canonical rotten: 87
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 36%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 13:56:09
Snapshot Tomatometer: 36%
Snapshot review count: 136
Snapshot fresh count: 49
Snapshot rotten count: 87
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1365 (full_snapshot)
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| 1 | Maisie Williams | Rahne Sinclair |
| 2 | Anya Taylor-Joy | Illyana Rasputin |
| 3 | Charlie Heaton | Sam Guthrie |
| 4 | Alice Braga | Dr. Cecilia Reyes |
| 5 | Henry Zaga | Roberto da Costa |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176993 | Louis Skye (Ronita Roy Mohan) | Stereo Geeks (Podcast) | Rotten | — | 2025-10-15T00:55:11Z | 2025-10-15 00:55:11 | It's not a bad film. It's just boring. It doesn't try to push any boundaries. The only area where they did something different was with the relationship between Dani and Rahne, but aside from that, the story is very limited in its scope. |
| 176994 | Manuel São Bento | MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) | Fresh | B- | 2023-07-24T18:06:14Z | 2023-07-24 18:06:14 | Josh Boone and Knate Lee deliver a reasonably entertaining screenplay out of the generic zone of the superhero genre, packed with detailed character development and decent horror sequences, especially having in mind the low budget. |
| 176995 | Kate Boyle | InSession Film | Fresh | C+ | 2023-03-08T18:42:28Z | 2023-03-08 18:42:28 | The New Mutants is an interesting film. I both liked and disliked it, either way, I would definitely watch it again. Anya Taylor-Joy was a clear standout... |
| 176996 | Joseph Garcia | Dynamic Duel Podcast | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-01-08T23:00:03Z | 2023-01-08 23:00:03 | [The teen horror genre] analogizes the fear of our formative years with the fear of the supernatural. And the X-Men comics created a metaphor about the unease of adolescence through characters with powers that manifest in puberty. I love the pairing. |
| 176997 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-08-24T16:35:58Z | 2022-08-24 16:35:58 | “The New Mutants” is a hard-to-embrace grind. |
| 176998 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-08-23T09:40:54Z | 2022-08-23 09:40:54 | …The New Mutants seems to have no narrative engine at all, leaving the viewer feeling as locked in as the kids do… |
| 176999 | Cory Woodroof | 615 Film | Rotten | — | 2022-06-15T23:14:27Z | 2022-06-15 23:14:27 | It’s basically a Freeform pilot for a television show we’re never going to see. |
| 177000 | Daniel Howat | Next Best Picture | Rotten | 3/10 | 2022-05-20T04:20:25Z | 2022-05-20 04:20:25 | The New Mutants ultimately feels like a poorly written CW-equivalent of the X-Men universe. It brings nothing scary, cool, or interesting to the table. |
| 177001 | David Gonzalez | The Cinematic Reel | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2022-02-18T15:45:18Z | 2022-02-18 15:45:18 | I believe this film would have worked best as a Hulu/Disney Plus series but The New Mutants may ultimately cement itself as a cult classic to many. |
| 177002 | Victoria Luxford | D Movies | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-02-17T15:31:07Z | 2022-02-17 15:31:07 | With only the loosest connections to Wolverine and Co., this is a house full of characters waiting for something to come along, and when it does the stakes seem non-existent. |
| 177003 | Witney Seibold | Critically Acclaimed Podcast | Fresh | — | 2021-09-13T20:32:15Z | 2021-09-13 20:32:15 | It's weirdly refreshing to see a superhero film remain this small and intimate. Add a queer romance and some interdimensional demons and you have a decent Saturday matinee. |
| 177004 | Jason Shawhan | Nashville Scene | Fresh | — | 2021-09-10T19:22:20Z | 2021-09-10 19:22:20 | ...The New Mutants is a coming-of-age story in which the internal and biochemical struggles that plague us all are externalized into something grand and operatic, pulsing with eldritch fire, psionic blasts and bodies unbound by established tradition. |
| 177005 | Kip Mooney | College Movie Review | Rotten | C+ | 2021-08-10T23:51:29Z | 2021-08-10 23:51:29 | Both extremely dark (often literally) and extremely silly. |
| 177006 | Travis Johnson | Mr. Movie's Film Blog | Fresh | — | 2021-08-08T22:01:01Z | 2021-08-08 22:01:01 | 'Queer mutant Breakfast Club fights demons.' is a tagline we're not going to get again anytime soon, and novelty is its own value. |
| 177007 | Daniel Barnes | Dare Daniel | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2021-04-27T15:30:08Z | 2021-04-27 15:30:08 | Bland and pointless beyond belief, The New Mutants is two-thirds backstory monologues and one-third CGI-on-CGI fisticuffs. It wants to be so many things and ends up being absolutely nothing. |
| 177008 | Jesse Hassenger | NME (New Musical Express) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-02-05T20:11:37Z | 2021-02-05 20:11:37 | Despite, or perhaps because of, the movie's modest budget and aims, The New Mutants is entertaining and sometimes even affecting. |
| 177009 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-01-29T19:56:02Z | 2021-01-29 19:56:02 | Eventually The New Mutants biodegrades into a computer-generated slog as the movie approaches the end of its 90-minute running time. |
| 177010 | EJ Moreno | EJ Moreno | Rotten | — | 2021-01-29T00:22:26Z | 2021-01-29 00:22:26 | No movie in the modern-era has screamed "send me to streaming" more than this. The low stakes action here can't match up to the work of its cinematic peers. |
| 177011 | J.D. Gillam | Starburst | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-01-13T00:11:09Z | 2021-01-13 00:11:09 | Points for trying something new, but it's now nice to know that the future of the franchise is now safely back in the hands of Marvel. |
| 177012 | Jason Best | Marie Claire | Rotten | — | 2021-01-11T15:41:03Z | 2021-01-11 15:41:03 | Save for the novel lesbian romance between two of the characters, the characters' angst-ridden interactions seem secondhand, while the story's thrills and scares lean heavily on earlier films, too. |
| 177013 | Jeremy Aspinall | Radio Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-01-08T23:01:35Z | 2021-01-08 23:01:35 | The intention to explore a mash-up of haunted-house horror and young-adult drama instead of spandex pyrotechnics is a worthy one, but this swansong to Fox's X-Men franchise sadly fails to deliver on its premise. |
| 177014 | Diana Mangas | Los Interrogantes | Fresh | 5.5/10 | 2021-01-03T12:40:42Z | 2021-01-03 12:40:42 | Presents a teenage adventure that can attract a new and diverse audience towards the X-Men saga. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177015 | Matt Hudson | What I Watched Tonight | Fresh | 6/10 | 2020-12-31T01:22:01Z | 2020-12-31 01:22:01 | At times its cliche and at other times fun, The New Mutants serves as a peculiar superhero offering compared to its bigger-budget contemporaries. |
| 177016 | Rachael Harper | SciFiNow | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-12-31T00:51:50Z | 2020-12-31 00:51:50 | We get a partial horror film without the scares and a partial coming-of-age story without the heart. |
| 177017 | Trace Thurman | Horror Queers Podcast | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-12-30T18:22:22Z | 2020-12-30 18:22:22 | Maybe it's because we were all expecting the worst after the years of delays, but The New Mutants is actually pretty alright? |
| 177018 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Ventana Indiscreta | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-12-26T19:41:20Z | 2020-12-26 19:41:20 | It's a film that remains a bit half-baked, and that doesn't convince either as a superhero film, or as a drama or horror film. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177019 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Fresh | 6/10 | 2020-12-18T02:31:29Z | 2020-12-18 02:31:29 | Ultimately The New Mutants is a solid superhero origin buried underneath a range of bad luck and poor choices. |
| 177020 | Emmanuel Báez | Cinéfiloz | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-12-14T22:31:34Z | 2020-12-14 22:31:34 | For all its flaws, the movie allows itself to play with less worn concepts within the superhero cinematic universe. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177021 | Jason Fraley | WTOP (Washington, D.C.) | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2020-12-12T03:03:32Z | 2020-12-12 03:03:32 | While its horror tone is a bit jumbled and its superpowers are inconsistent, I admire the filmmaker taking a different approach with the institutional concept. At least it's not cookie cutter. |
| 177022 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-12-06T17:50:44Z | 2020-12-06 17:50:44 | Consistently falls short of the high standards expected from anything carrying the Marvel brand. |
| 177023 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-12-05T17:30:53Z | 2020-12-05 17:30:53 | This middling X-Men entry is still superior to Dark Phoenix, the depressing dud that managed to kill off a once-proud franchise. |
| 177024 | Vincent Schilling | Indian Country Today | Fresh | 9.5/10 | 2020-12-05T16:10:43Z | 2020-12-05 16:10:43 | A complex and deeply emotional dive into the complexities of being a teenager, a mutant and incarcerated. One of my favorites in the Marvel Universe. |
| 177025 | Murjani Rawls | Deadscreen | Rotten | — | 2020-11-30T23:11:15Z | 2020-11-30 23:11:15 | The New Mutants has the atmosphere, acting, and set pieces to be successful. However, it ultimately tries to serve too many themes to make for a successful film. |
| 177026 | Fico Cangiano | CineXpress | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-11-25T05:40:20Z | 2020-11-25 05:40:20 | A big mess. One of the worst X-Men films so far. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177027 | Fred Topel | Showbiz Cheat Sheet | Fresh | — | 2020-11-23T23:01:12Z | 2020-11-23 23:01:12 | After years of delays, the fact that The New Mutants is just okay feels like a victory. |
| 177028 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-11-22T16:20:48Z | 2020-11-22 16:20:48 | You know what? It's nowhere near the disaster you'd probably imagine. |
| 177029 | Douglas Davidson | Elements of Madness | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-11-21T14:00:16Z | 2020-11-21 14:00:16 | ... it's difficult to applaud the positive elements in line with the writers' intent when their utilization of built-in narrative elements are so weak and their newly created elements so uninspired. |
| 177030 | A.A. Dowd | AV Club | Rotten | C | 2020-11-20T05:22:30Z | 2020-11-20 05:22:30 | Even a mangled bit of Whedonese about a toad struck by lightning could benefit a superhero story this starved for character. |
| 177031 | Brett White | Decider | Fresh | — | 2020-11-19T15:51:22Z | 2020-11-19 15:51:22 | It's far from the best X-Men film, but it's also far, far from the worst. |
| 177032 | Molly Freeman | Screen Rant | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-11-17T23:31:51Z | 2020-11-17 23:31:51 | The New Mutants tries to offer a compelling blend of teen drama, horror and X-Men mythos, but ultimately fails to deliver a good entry in any genre. |
| 177033 | Meagan Navarro | Bloody Disgusting | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-11-17T22:32:26Z | 2020-11-17 22:32:26 | The concept behind The New Mutants is a solid, intriguing one that could've reinvigorated the familiar origin superhero story. Instead, Boone opts for genericism, ending the X-Men franchise with an angsty-teen whimper. |
| 177034 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-11-17T19:22:26Z | 2020-11-17 19:22:26 | While the cast is made up of mostly younger actors, they are a rather accomplished group, and their expertise helps them to fully flesh out their characters. |
| 177035 | Grace Randolph | Beyond the Trailer | Rotten | — | 2020-11-16T20:01:21Z | 2020-11-16 20:01:21 | A very good cast can't overcome a film that's horribly behind the times. New Mutants feels like it was made in the 90s, and not in a clever way... |
| 177036 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 1/4 | 2020-11-14T17:40:33Z | 2020-11-14 17:40:33 | ...a somewhat promising setup that's employed to progressively interminable effect by Boone... |
| 177037 | Clarisse Loughrey | Independent (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-11-12T00:41:57Z | 2020-11-12 00:41:57 | The New Mutants tramples over its own comic book credentials in order to chase after a concept already more convincingly dealt with by The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
| 177038 | Dominic Griffin | The Armchair Auteur | Rotten | 5/10 | 2020-11-11T20:52:20Z | 2020-11-11 20:52:20 | Neither a particularly exciting outing to close the Fox X-Men franchise on, nor an egregious and offensive failure. It's just sort of...there. |
| 177039 | Ronak Kotecha | The Times of India | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-10-30T23:53:45Z | 2020-10-30 23:53:45 | With all its power play, The New Mutants seems more like a complex campus drama with teenage squabbles and first kisses rather than a sophisticated making of the next breed of X-Men. |
| 177040 | Richard Whittaker | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-10-22T23:57:46Z | 2020-10-22 23:57:46 | An idiotic, nonsensical, and weirdly cheap attempt to take the stories in a new direction. |
| 177041 | Fausto Fernandez | Fotogramas | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-10-09T23:32:08Z | 2020-10-09 23:32:08 | It's in these shortcomings... where the film manages to have a modest voice of its own. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177042 | Alan Ng | Film Threat | Fresh | 7/10 | 2020-09-21T17:31:51Z | 2020-09-21 17:31:51 | If you want a few jump scares and a superhero Breakfast Club, give The New Mutants a chance. With the proper expectations, it is not as bad as you think it is. Just keep those expectations really low. |
| 177043 | David 'Mad Dog' Bradley | Adelaide Review | Rotten | — | 2020-09-11T00:14:43Z | 2020-09-11 00:14:43 | The final result is something that's sure to irk hardcore Marvel-philes and newbies alike. |
| 177044 | Jo Berry | Movies4Kids | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-10T08:50:16Z | 2020-09-10 08:50:16 | ...this feels like a missed opportunity - if it had just been more tense with more superhero/mutant stuff it may have breathed some fresh life into the X-Men franchise. |
| 177045 | Ryan Larson | Ghastly Grinning | Fresh | — | 2020-09-09T21:52:54Z | 2020-09-09 21:52:54 | The New Mutants is a peek at how we could blend horror and superheroes together and it's a fun, angsty adventure that exists in both realms. |
| 177046 | Daniel Theophanous | One Room With A View | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-09T19:53:22Z | 2020-09-09 19:53:22 | An in-depth character study with an elaborated origin story, this feels fresh and edgy, further enhanced by its injection of horror, its sense of eeriness and sporadic jolts taking place within the confinement of a sanatorium. |
| 177047 | Linda Cook | OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-09-09T15:21:18Z | 2020-09-09 15:21:18 | There's not much new about 'New Mutants' |
| 177048 | Nestor Bentancor | Nestor Cine Desde Hollywood | Fresh | — | 2020-09-09T00:00:59Z | 2020-09-09 00:00:59 | Despite pacing issues, a worth it exploration of emotional struggles through the horror/fantasy lens. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 177049 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-09-07T04:50:51Z | 2020-09-07 04:50:51 | A wholly unmemorable, anodyne attempt to slightly push the franchise and the genre before mostly chickening out. |
| 177050 | Víctor López G. | Espinof | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-05T21:51:37Z | 2020-09-05 21:51:37 | Free, charismatic and rebellious. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 177051 | Charlotte O'Sullivan | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-09-05T21:45:25Z | 2020-09-05 21:45:25 | Fox's last X-Men movie is an unholy mess... Out of the wreckage, a cult classic has been born. |
| 177052 | Dulcie Pearce | The Sun (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-05T21:31:24Z | 2020-09-05 21:31:24 | It tastes decent enough, especially on post-lockdown diet days, but you wouldn't rush to have it again. |
| 177053 | Brian Viner | Daily Mail (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-05T20:41:18Z | 2020-09-05 20:41:18 | The New Mutants feels like a Disney Channel TV movie from the early 2000s in its scripting and performances, with comfortingly predictable individual story arcs and plodding dialogue. |
| 177054 | Ed Potton | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-05T20:31:03Z | 2020-09-05 20:31:03 | You could call it One Flew Over the Mutant's Nest if it had an ounce of wit or personality. |
| 177055 | Philip De Semlyen | Time Out | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-05T09:40:37Z | 2020-09-05 09:40:37 | It finally arrives more than two years after its original planned release date and at times it's hard not to stifle the unkind thought: 'Why so soon?' |
| 177056 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Rotten | — | 2020-09-04T21:25:43Z | 2020-09-04 21:25:43 | 2 / 5 If you're a disinterested teen looking for some mild, gore-less action and pubescent angst, The New Mutants may be just what the doctor ordered. |
| 177057 | Paul Mount | Starburst | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-09-04T20:46:58Z | 2020-09-04 20:46:58 | The New Mutants is a flat and pointless film we really need never concern ourselves with again. |
| 177058 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-09-04T19:46:24Z | 2020-09-04 19:46:24 | It adds up to an old-fashioned B-picture bereft of the rousing jolt of bad taste that gave the genre its energy. |
| 177059 | Jonathan Roberts | The New Paper (Singapore) | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-09-04T16:23:26Z | 2020-09-04 16:23:26 | The New Mutants is a mess, never quite sure what it wants to do or who it wants to focus on. |
| 177060 | Gabriela Meza | Fuera de Foco | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-09-04T14:31:16Z | 2020-09-04 14:31:16 | The New Mutants tries to hard to be a horror film, and it loses all its potential in trying to persuade us that it is scary. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 177061 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-04T14:11:11Z | 2020-09-04 14:11:11 | This film is no masterpiece, but the franchise has mutated, just a little. |
| 177062 | Jonita Davis | The Black Cape | Rotten | — | 2020-09-04T04:30:59Z | 2020-09-04 04:30:59 | 2 of 5 In 2016, 'New Mutants' it would've been the film to see. It may have passed in January this year. Today, audiences are different, and most are better off waiting for streaming. |
| 177063 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-09-03T20:42:09Z | 2020-09-03 20:42:09 | The cast is strong enough to hold the interest, and there are some sharp surprises along the way. |
| 177064 | Brandon Avery | Just My Opinion Reviews | Rotten | 4/10 | 2020-09-03T20:42:08Z | 2020-09-03 20:42:08 | It's shocking that after so many countless comic book films, this is how 20th Century Fox ended their run! This is by far the worst X-Men film to date. Glad it's all over! |
| 177065 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-03T19:07:00Z | 2020-09-03 19:07:00 | If you want a school-set Maisie Williams fright fest, seek out 2014's far superior The Falling instead. |
| 177066 | Tara McNamara | Common Sense Media | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-03T17:05:32Z | 2020-09-03 17:05:32 | Groundbreaking elements, but violent X-Men tale falls short. |
| 177067 | Charles Pulliam-Moore | io9.com | Fresh | — | 2020-09-03T16:26:25Z | 2020-09-03 16:26:25 | The New Mutants is far from perfect and you can easily spot a few scuffs and dents in the movie's plot, it manages to stand on its own two legs and ends up being one of the more solid, if not particularly heart-pounding, on-screen stories. |
| 177068 | Joseph Walsh | The Arts Desk | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-03T15:52:54Z | 2020-09-03 15:52:54 | An eerie sense of déjà vu reveals how little originality New Mutants actually possesses. |
| 177069 | Matt Conway | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2020-09-03T14:32:03Z | 2020-09-03 14:32:03 | The New Mutants may be a mess, but it's an endearing one at that. |
| 177070 | Doug Jamieson | The Jam Report | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-03T11:31:02Z | 2020-09-03 11:31:02 | An uninspired bore that proves to be a tedious experience. |
| 177071 | Emma Simmonds | The List | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-03T11:10:39Z | 2020-09-03 11:10:39 | Things may start a little sluggishly but the film does build in ferocity, identity and interest, and those who have missed their hits of big budget spectacle should find it enough of a fix. |
| 177072 | Peter Gray | This is Film | Rotten | — | 2020-09-03T05:40:43Z | 2020-09-03 05:40:43 | It's not as awful as it should be. Sadly, it's not as good as it could be either. |
| 177073 | Nick Johnston | Vanyaland | Rotten | — | 2020-09-02T20:14:00Z | 2020-09-02 20:14:00 | It's the kind of crushingly mediocre spin-off superhero movie that came to define the latter half of the pre-Disney Fox slate. |
| 177074 | Lauren Coates | Culturess | Rotten | — | 2020-09-02T19:41:06Z | 2020-09-02 19:41:06 | While it certainly wasn't the trainwreck we were expecting given just how many delays it incurred, neither the characters nor the plot are developed or interesting enough to really get The New Mutants off the ground. |
| 177075 | Catalina Combs | Black Girl Nerds | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-09-02T16:55:42Z | 2020-09-02 16:55:42 | It's tough to sit through a film you've been excited to see for so long and just feel this sense of being letdown scene after scene. So many things go wrong in this film and you wonder how the filmmakers didn't notice. |
| 177076 | Aarón Rodríguez Serrano | El antepenúltimo mohicano | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-09-02T16:25:12Z | 2020-09-02 16:25:12 | Uneven results, perhaps, but [the film has] some characteristics that invite us to think. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 177077 | Matt Oakes | Silver Screen Riot | Rotten | C- | 2020-09-02T15:04:25Z | 2020-09-02 15:04:25 | By positioning 'New Mutants' as a start to a larger story, the whole things feels unfinished and ultimately unnecessary. |
| 177078 | Josh Wilding | ComicBookMovie.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-09-01T13:33:37Z | 2020-09-01 13:33:37 | The New Mutants fails as a horror film, but compared to Dark Phoenix, it's a huge upgrade, and the young cast deliver in a way that ensure these characters get the big screen treatment they deserve...even when the movie lets them down. |
| 177079 | Deirdre Molumby | entertainment.ie | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-09-01T10:03:49Z | 2020-09-01 10:03:49 | The feature has little by way of direction or ambition. It's the third worst in the X-Men franchise after The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix. |
| 177080 | Emily Wheeler | Film Inquiry | Rotten | — | 2020-09-01T06:03:29Z | 2020-09-01 06:03:29 | Far from the dumpster fire many feared, The New Mutants is a much more mundane disappointment: a near miss. |
| 177081 | Andrea Ayres | Polygon | Rotten | — | 2020-08-31T22:52:23Z | 2020-08-31 22:52:23 | A film that could have roared onto screens instead hardly makes a sound. |
| 177082 | Miles Surrey | The Ringer | Rotten | — | 2020-08-31T21:33:24Z | 2020-08-31 21:33:24 | ...a movie that should fade into obscurity after its brief moment in the spotlight. And after everything that The New Mutants went through on and off screen, such an outcome feels like the only thing it was ever destined for. |
| 177083 | Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair | Rotten | — | 2020-08-31T21:13:06Z | 2020-08-31 21:13:06 | The movie that's made its way to theaters is mildly engaging but mostly inert, a wan sizzle reel for an idea rather than the idea made manifest. |
| 177084 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Fresh | B- | 2020-08-31T16:01:06Z | 2020-08-31 16:01:06 | It's a major step in the right direction from the blunder that was "Dark Phoenix," and though the film has the energy of an unfinished pilot episode with major potential, this film's legacy will likely live on in the form of late night bar trivia. |
| 177085 | Matthew Monagle | The Playlist | Fresh | B | 2020-08-31T15:20:57Z | 2020-08-31 15:20:57 | If New Mutants is any indication, the future is bright for young adult horror, even when that future is being carved out of the husk of billion-dollar properties. |
| 177086 | Sam Preston | Cultured Vultures | Fresh | 6/10 | 2020-08-31T14:00:32Z | 2020-08-31 14:00:32 | Bolstered by a strong cast and a heartfelt romance, The New Mutants is a solid character drama with hints of horror. |
| 177087 | Amon Warmann | Empire Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-08-31T13:20:23Z | 2020-08-31 13:20:23 | Despite a game cast, The New Mutants' horror elements aren't very scary and as a superhero movie it fails to truly excite. A disappointing finale to Fox's X-Men franchise. |
| 177088 | Wendy Shreve | Featuring Film | Fresh | — | 2020-08-31T10:43:23Z | 2020-08-31 10:43:23 | The New Mutants has the acting talent to keep younger audiences engaged. |
| 177089 | James Mottram | South China Morning Post | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-08-31T07:53:49Z | 2020-08-31 07:53:49 | This baffling tale comes off like a supernatural Breakfast Club, with mild doses of horror and even a same-sex romance subplot that feels entirely cynical. |
| 177090 | Javier Ocaña | El Pais (Spain) | Rotten | — | 2020-08-31T02:01:01Z | 2020-08-31 02:01:01 | The movie is far from instilling any sort of fear. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 177091 | Grant Hermanns | ComingSoon.net | Rotten | 3.5/10 | 2020-08-30T19:44:33Z | 2020-08-30 19:44:33 | The third worst film in the X-Men franchise ahead of Origins: Wolverine and Dark Phoenix. |
| 177092 | Charlie Ridgely | ComicBook.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-08-30T14:32:19Z | 2020-08-30 14:32:19 | Regardless of its quality, The New Mutants will leave behind a complicated legacy. This ongoing saga has been a long and dramatic one, and it's a story that we'll remember for quite a long time. The film itself, however, it's simply forgettable. |
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