Seven years ago, James Mangold directed one of the greatest superhero films ever. Logan defied the constraints of the genre to the point that it hardly felt like a superhero movie at all; that’s partly thanks to its R-rating, but Mangold and his team also clearly cared about the story being told. Logan built on the foundation of previous X-Men films without feeling like a commercial for the next. It was designed as a swan song for Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, and could easily have been the final X-Men film.
