RogerEbert.com January 21, 2022 Munich – The Edge of War starts off as a prim spy thriller and ends as an insufferable civics lesson.
For all that money, we might have expected more. The plotting is occasionally a letdown too, bordering on infuriating.
Invasion is a ten-hour season devoid of nearly all humor, where characters across the globe continually bumble around in their own misery, res...
Peter Sollett’s Metal Lords is small and patchy even by the standards of a throwaway Netflix movie that feels like it’s already been forgotten...
The Guardian January 10, 2022 [A] handsome spy thriller…
The Guardian October 27, 2021 Invasion is a slow burn that threatens to become simply slow.
The best one can say about something as forgettable as "The Misfits" is that if your hunger for the long-awaited "F9" entrée needs addressing...
This is one alien invasion show that couldn’t be less about aliens – and is all the better for it.
New York Times June 10, 2021 Equally insulting to Arabic dialects and the Muslim Brotherhood, "The Misfits" is inarguably awful, its grandiose muddle of a plot unimpr...
Chicago Sun-Times November 9, 2021 There is so much unexplained in those first three episodes, and so many cliffhangers we can’t wait to see resolved.
It’s as briefly functional and highly disposable as a hotel key-card.
Houston Chronicle November 15, 2021 It has fully realized characters, solid acting (Neill and Farahani always bring it) and a building dread.
Invasion proceeds so incrementally across such a wide range of characters and their responses to extraterrestrial terrorism that you might wel...
Slant Magazine April 7, 2022 Metal Lords betrays rather than upholds the values of the very kids it wants to revere.
The humor falls flat, the action bores and the big break-in makes little sense.
RogerEbert.com June 11, 2021 No one involved has any idea what to do with Brosnan, burying his playful performance in a film that’s almost impressively soulless.
A romance, bromance and good-natured send-up of teenage obsession.
Delivers plenty of compelling moments along the way.
Didn’t Brett Ratner already make this movie, twice, between orchestrating something similar with "Tower Heist" and directing Brosnan in...
Globe and Mail October 26, 2021 It is at times an enchanting, moving drama about love’s mysteries, not at all about the gross, fear-inducing spectacle of monstrous invaders.
Financial Times October 27, 2021 There is enough vaguely intriguing mystery, patient atmosphere-building and big-budget sheen here to ensure that the show remains entirely watchabl...
Play your favorite Rage Against the Machine album instead.
Rather than so much as utter the word "alien" in these initial episodes, Invasion focuses on the global ripple effects of increasing panic – w...
RogerEbert.com October 22, 2021 A refreshing and often thrilling juggling of plot-threads that involve incredibly flawed or hurtful decisions made in the name of survival.
Detroit News January 21, 2022 "Munich" doesn’t take any unexpected turns, which makes its edge-of-your-seat developments all the more impressive.
All the bouncy music, implausible costume changes, and conveniently omitted details in the world can’t force any fun out of a caper that...
From top to bottom, I had such a good time with this.
Financial Times January 6, 2022 A sad, bold-spirited film about the see-saw of political reputation, and the treachery of hope.
Empire Magazine January 6, 2022 An enjoyable World War II spy flick, Munich: The Edge Of War scores with strong performances and filmmaking craft, but is let down by a lack of dra...
"Metal Lords" is disappointingly formulaic, but Hunter’s restless energy keeps the picture lively, all the way up to its cathartic musical fin...
Despite its many structural flaws, I would be amiss if I said I didn’t enjoy every last second of this brilliantly written and gorgeousl...
Individually, none of the subplots builds to anything shaped by the careful arcing of a good short story, much less to anything that gives you...
The story belongs to its young cast, and Lords' ramshackle comedy sweetly captures the rank anxiety, random humiliations, and undiluted hope of bei...
Sex, drugs and rock n roll are on the set list, yet it plays too fast and loose, failing to achieve a good balance to make the chords rev...
Daily Telegraph January 6, 2022 The suspense is sturdily and convincingly built, and has little to do with how events ultimately pan out, history having already spoiled us on that...
Though there aren’t many laughs on the way to that Battle of the Bands, Sollett’s unassuming cast and breezy pace ensure we won’t be too bored befo...
TIME Magazine January 24, 2022 If the movie is handsome in an oak-paneled-office way, there’s life in it too. You feel there’s something at stake for the two young wo...
Associated Press January 20, 2022 Sure, a cheer for gentlemanly honor. But like Chamberlain, "Munich" misses the moment.
"Swindler" will make those already suspicious about dating apps delete them in a hurry.
New York Times April 7, 2022 Conventional but genuine, "Metal Lords" comprehends the riot of adolescent emotions and the many ways teenagers manage them.
I enjoyed it more than I expected… I laughed quite a bit.
RogerEbert.com April 8, 2022 The film may be cinematic comfort food, but its creators do earn our trust and nail all the essential beats they need to along the way.
The Guardian August 23, 2022 Waiting for it to finish is like sitting bored on a hard plastic chair and then realising your phone has run out of battery but the charger is pack...
indieWire October 27, 2021 "Invasion" always feels like it’s using each far-flung story as a checklist.
Times (UK) January 7, 2022 Schwochow cross-cuts between set pieces and high-stakes action with enough handheld intensity to make you forget (or wish you had forgotten) the hi...
New York Times January 20, 2022 A plodding bureaucratic procedural that features many, many characters strategizing in various spaces with furrowed brows and clenched jaws, mostly...
The first three installments as a block, though, pay off nicely, because by episode four, even the most sci-fi agnostic will be pulled in by s...
MovieFreak.com January 23, 2022 Munich: The Edge of War is a sturdy, meticulously crafted ticking-clock thriller I thoroughly enjoyed.
Daily Telegraph October 27, 2021 The problem is that bigness again. In a bid to tell a sweeping story for all mankind (to borrow another strong Apple TV+ title), Invasion take...
The series is determined to tell, not show-relying on shots of people fleeing in terror or gaping at something offscreen, and waiting until the mid...
Perfectly watchable, never spectacular.
Boston Globe January 20, 2022 Once various ducks have been gotten in a narrative row and the conference starts, the movie becomes pretty good.
Los Angeles Times January 21, 2022 Irons gives the kind of performance you want more of as a window into the psychology of leadership, so the fact that he has to share it in so...
