When you’re a producer, director, actor, or anyone directly responsible for creating a film, it’s understandable that you’ll defend your work to the bitter end, even if the product isn’t great. This happens almost every month or so, as a new stinker gets prepared to be released in theaters and the cast and crew do the publicity rounds assuring moviegoers that everything is great, and this new widget is better than the faulty one last time.

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This week, the almost-20-year run of Fox “X-Men” movies comes to an end in “Dark Phoenix.” (Yes, “The New Mutants” is on the horizon but it has nothing to do with the core ‘X-Men’ films from what we can tell.) No spoilers will be given here, but after you’ve seen the film, it’s clear that writer-director Simon Kinberg set up “Dark Phoenix” as about as much of an ending as the mutant franchise will see.

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