Logan May 2026

Director: James Mangold Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen Rating: R (for strong brutal violence, language, and brief nudity)

This is not a superhero movie. It is a neo-Western, a road-trip tragedy, and a brutal meditation on aging, legacy, and mortality. It is also, quite simply, one of the finest comic-book films ever made. The year is 2029. The mutants are gone. Logan (Jackman) is a shadow of his former self. Now a limo driver in El Paso, Texas, he is gray-haired, slow-healing, and perpetually drunk. He spends his days saving pills for a dying, 90-year-old Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), whose once-mighty telepathic mind now suffers from degenerative seizures that can freeze or kill everyone in a mile radius. The year is 2029

Patrick Stewart, likewise, delivers a devastating turn. His Xavier is not the wise, serene professor; he is a guilty, frightened old man suffering from a catastrophic illness. The film’s most heartbreaking scene involves nothing more than Xavier remembering a hotel room and a moment of peace. Now a limo driver in El Paso, Texas,

Logan does not pull its punches. It buries its hero in the only way that matters: not with a parade, but with a quiet grave by a lake, a cross turned on its side to form an “X.” It is a masterpiece. people are dismembered

They live in hiding, waiting for death. Then a frantic nurse forces a strange, mute girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) into Logan’s care. She has claws. She is angry. And a mercenary army led by the cybernetic Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) is hot on her trail. The first thing you’ll notice is the R-rating. This is not the bloodless, quippy combat of other Marvel films. When Logan pops his claws here, people are dismembered, impaled, and eviscerated. Heads are torn off. Limbs are severed.