On this episode of Hoffman’s Hot Takes, we turn back the clock to 1962 to break down how Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr went from allies to ideological rivals. We’re running the movie through our signature 20-Category Rubric—scoring everything from Kevin Bacon’s Sebastian Shaw and the CIA mutant recruitment montage to the iconic Cuban beach missile standoff and the birth of Magneto.

Does the Cold War setting help or hurt the pacing? And where does this land on the master leaderboard compared to Captain America: The First Avenger? Tune in to find out!

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