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Logan

One of the best things that came out of 2016's Deadpool was that 20th Century Fox found that R rated superhero movies can be successful. With this, they announced that they were in the process of creating an R rated Wolverine movie. Logan is the result of this. As it embraces the R rating with violence and language, Logan draws you in on an emotional level as well. The film takes place in the year 2029, a time where mutants are near extinct. Logan (played by the worn Hugh Jackman) does his best to blend in within his small town near the border, as he cares for Professor Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart) with the help of Caliban (Stephen Merchant). This all changes when a nurse named Gabriella (Elizabeth Rodriguez) pays Logan to take her and a young girl named Laura (played by Dafne Keen in her big screen debut) to North Dakota. What she doesn't reveal is that Laura is Logan's genetic clone and that they are being hunted by Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook). The film