Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I've seen worse this year. And better.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's the best public relations boost Scouting has had since it ended its ban on gay leaders, not to mention a pretty decent zombie film.

Name : Alan Zilberman / Alias : Washington Post
This is not a great film, yet for the right audience it could be an entertaining one.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Well, it's got that title going for it. So there's that.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The latest in the X-Men movie franchise is just X-meh.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is turning into the season of superheroes battling other superheroes, but "X-Men: Apocalypse" is the first one, so far, to do it right.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
By the end . you might be as punch-drunk as Kageyama in his final showdown, and too exhausted to care.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Directed by the inimitable Takashi Miike. Apocalypse finds the 55-year-old filmmaker at his silliest, which is saying a lot, as he's responsible for some of the silliest movies ever made.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
[A] numbingly idiotic vampire yakuza tale.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
What makes X-Men: Apocalypse so exciting isn't really any one thing but rather its cohesion, its storytelling verve.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit.

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
We . get zombie diarrhea jokes, zombie fat jokes, zombie selfie jokes, zombie cat-lady jokes, and zombie stripper jokes. And when all of this starts to seem too crass, out come the cliched lessons .

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The result is a movie that's outrageous without being funny, and gruesome without being scary.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Unlike some of the cheesier remnants of the '80s, we'll probably want to see more of these new X-Men.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Lurid and nutso doesn't even begin to describe this opus. You have to see it to believe it . if you have the stomach for it.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Marks a shocking letdown from Singer's earlier contributions; what once soared now slogs.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse manages to be a very good comedy, a scary adventure, a tale of friendship and a coming of age story, all rolled into one.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Apocalypse isn't quite a dog. But it is a movie with way too much of everything except the things that should matter the most - novelty, creativity, and fun.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No surprises here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is exactly what you'd expect. But better.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's all too dumb and ribald for most tastes, but if you liked all the zombie comedies that came before, well, here's another one.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Too often revels in juvenile gags involving poop and penises, but you can see shards of the film it might have been.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
For those fans who don't mind enduring some tedium and confusion, "Yakuza Apocalypse" at least offers something memorably bizarre.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Piece by piece, Singer fits this ninth film in the franchise (which includes Deadpool) into the X-Men universe like a master puzzle maker. He does it so well, at least in terms of storytelling, that the X-Men franchise still has a vigorous future.

Name : Maggie Lee / Alias : Variety
A lazily executed dud padded out with infantile pranks, shambolic plot turns and knockabout action.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film falls prey to the zombie curse of excessive laddishness, but at least it finds room for a strong female character.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
If your idea of a hot joke is a strip club called "Lawrence of Alabia," step right up to "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse," a horror-comedy that takes a weak premise (do high school boys even go scouting anymore?) and barely uses it, anyway.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
The Scouts save the day, but not the movie, in this witless zombie-comedy retread.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Will make you want to punch the nearest teenage boy in the face.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Despite the undeniable presence of a huge amount of action, X-Men: Apocalypse is decidedly a case of more is less.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As horror, "Scouts Guide" is too frivolous to thrill. As comedy, it leans too much on scenes that see the teens groping big-breasted topless zombies or the beasties sexually molesting young girls.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The gags are mostly puerile and uninspired - like the film was dreamed up by a bunch of tired, wired 13-year-olds; it has their insistence but little of their invention.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Yakuza Apocalypse is the kind of free-for-all only Miike could stage-pitting not merely different characters, but different genres and tones against each other, until the world cracks in two under the weight.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Disappointingly [succumbs] to an exhausting case of been-there-done-that-itis.

Name : Devan Coggan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
After decades of well-trodden zombie tropes, a successful zombie movie has to be at least one of three things: a) original b) funny or c) actually scary. Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse doesn't earn a merit badge in any one of those categories.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
James makes for a charismatic hero, and former "Saturday Night Live" star Sudeikis is a revelation as the steadfast Snyder.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
There are reasons to wish that Race.offered a broader, deeper portrait of the man. Yet, as a celebration and evocation of a stunning moment in time, it's an engrossing and occasionally surprising take on an iconic event in sports history.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
A so-so movie about an extraordinary athlete.

Name : Jim Slotek / Alias : Toronto Sun
A glossy, superficial biopic set in a historical context that begs for more, Race can at least claim to be one of the two best movies ever made about Olympic hero/Hitler-embarrasser Jesse Owens.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Director Stephen Hopkins plods when he needs to sprint, but Jesse Owens is a great movie subject. His triumph at the 1936 Olympics left Hitler to suck it up and watch a black man shatter his cuckoo theories of an Aryan master race.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Race" can't help but engage when it gets to the games. But what's the point of telling Jesse Owens' story if you don't get into what made him tick, and drove his success as an athlete?

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Where is Owens in all of this? By the end of Race, we don't know much more about him as an individual than we did when the movie began.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
A wallpaper-thin but sentimentally effective hagiography.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Hopkins, a prolific producer/director of B movies, moves things at a steady pace through the film's two-plus hours, getting many facts right, fudging a few and ignoring some. Those it shows with sensitivity are breathtaking.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : NPR
A handsomely mounted drama about a pivotal moment in the life of track star Jesse Owens .

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Race" wants so badly to get every last bit of the big picture that it dashes past the little details that actually tell a story. Like an over-trained athlete who pulls a hamstring in the big race, the movie tries to do it all and comes up short.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Owens's story is certainly one that needs telling, although Race isn't as strong as it could be, even if it does include a larger narrative than one man's rise to greatness.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
Race wants to end, unsurprisingly, on a note of uplift-but for a film with so much dark, unexplored potential, it's an unsatisfying finish line to cross.

Name : Alan Zilberman / Alias : Washington Post
The script and direction of "Race" are both workmanlike and serve the film well, helping us to see Owens and Snyder as ordinary people with extraordinary gifts.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
"Race" is disappointing in parts, but Stephan James makes for an appealing star .

Name : Christian Holub / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The title is on-the-nose but rather fitting for the story of Jesse Owens, the black track-and-field athlete who stunned the world by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Adolf Hitler's Berlin .

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The film delivers what it promises - an education and a thrill.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Directed by Stephen Hopkins from a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, "Race" is a well-made biopic about Owens at the Berlin Games and the events leading up to his extraordinary accomplishment.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
At a time when the Oscars and movies, in general, struggle with finding racial balance, two guys of different skin colors coming together for some sports-movie magic is a fitting and truly welcoming lapping of the competition.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
It's amazing, the power of drama to make audiences worry about an outcome that is part of the historical record, but "Race" accomplishes just that.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
As a Hollywood biography of the great Jesse Owens, it's meant to be epic. But its characters feel flat and unreal. Apart from a few big moments, it's as cheap and false as a 1970s TV flick.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Making a few admirable attempts to complicate what could have been a standard-issue inspirational sports narrative, "Race" is better than it has to be, but not by too much .

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"Race" reminds us that long before television elevated black sports heroes into gods, there were athletes like Jesse Owens who paved the way.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Ultimately, it offers history told as a series of passing anecdotes.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Race is the most timid, lackadaisical movie that could have been made out of potentially classic material.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The bare necessities are there, the performances are competent, and there are some strong moments but Race suffers from a lack of ambition. It's too safe and that quality mutes its impact and limits its ability to be more than a history lesson.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
A dull portrait of an extraordinary man.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
A keen exploration of how to make a political statement without saying a word, and how best to stay true to one's self while making necessary compromises and calculations.

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
Hopkins films all the races with suitable elan - since Owens was a sprinter, accomplishing his feats in a matter of seconds, they are relatively easy to dramatize - but you don't leave the theatre with much understanding of how he did it.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Race" is the story of Owens in his finest moments, and it succeeds in telling it. Just don't expect more than that.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Race" tells the story of a brave and gifted and determined man who accomplished great feats during a pivotal moment in world history - but it's a by-the-numbers sports biopic with little nuance and a penchant for saccharine-soaked dramatic moments.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : Village Voice
Race follows the pattern of so many other sports biopics in which it's white patronage that makes black triumphs possible.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
It's a saga of unquenchable spirit and fast-twitch muscles shot in slow-twitch style.