What Sing 2 does offer is more big musical numbers, lots of eye-popping animation and a sugar-high ending that will delight kids and...
The Tomorrow War is little more than a clunky, Nolan-esque exercise in instruction-manual cinema.
The movie clearly intends its monsters as a metaphor for climate crisis. It works fairly well…
USA Today September 23, 2013 A solid weekly crime show built around a genuine TV star. That’s the kind of series the networks have to be able to pull off to survive...
Movie Mom December 22, 2021 Heart and humor that will delight young audiences while the parents will get a kick out of the eclectic mix of songs.
Is Craig’s poignant farewell the best of the actor’s run? I’d put the emotionality of Skyfall and the eye-popping Casino Royale a...
This is a massive misfire that I unfortunately never connected with on an emotional level.
«Don’t Look Up» is good, but it could have been so much better.
Austin Chronicle December 22, 2021 Sing 2 is better than the original. I wasn’t actively hate-watching this one.
This is one of the most confounding and ridiculous movies of the year, with a terrific cast sinking under the weight of a convoluted plot and...
Detroit News December 21, 2021 The songs might get stuck in your head, but «Sing 2» won’t.
RogerEbert.com December 22, 2021 If Sing 2 teaches [young viewers] anything, it is to plan for a future in negotiating music licensing for films – hopefully for...
Empire Magazine January 22, 2022 There’s no questioning the high-octane energy of Garth Jennings' star-studded ensemble, but the cacophony grows a little tiresome. The s...
Clichés rain as fast and as furiously as bullets.
Well, that’s what we would call sticking the landing.
It is Bresson’s unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.
Watching Chris Pratt fight to save the future has a certain appeal, but in the here and now, he can’t even save the movie.
Newsday September 23, 2013 C’mon, producers. Upend the procedural. Let Spader run loose.
Throughout, there’s a sense that [it] is building, or rebuilding, toward something big and bold-that what you’re seeing is not so...
Times (UK) August 26, 2022 Pop-tastic karaoke animation…
New York Post September 19, 2013 He’s [James Spader] magnetic, chewing on the scenery so much that you can’t look away from him.
The Tomorrow War doesn’t feel like one big epic, rather three movies mashed into one. So many promising ideas crammed into a single film...
Washington Post December 21, 2021 A cinematic masterpiece it is not. But «Sing 2»is good enough.
New York Daily News September 23, 2013 It’s a fast-paced mystery that’s just plain entertaining.
Spader plays his scenes with relish. It’s fun to watch. So are the stylish action scenes.
Variety November 14, 2017 Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), remains fairly bland.
The movie accumulates much from its betters before it starts to rot from the inside. Eventually, it becomes a distended corpse of a big-ticket...
AV Club September 24, 2013 None of the characters are a fair match for Red, and most of the actors are less than a fair match for Spader.
New York Post July 2, 2021 [It] throws «Alien," «The Terminator» and «A Quiet Place» in a blender. And, like that gross kale smoothie you made once, the result is g...
There’s also an unfocused quality to the movie’s focus on humanity’s prevailing can-do, science-and-family-first spirit, which ma...
I think Megan Boone could develop her own following – she’s engaging and believable – but this is Spader’s game and he plays...
This movie’s a total blast, but it’s also surprisingly emotional at times, too.
Daily Telegraph January 27, 2022 Your kids will love it.
[A] gloriously moronic picture
A blandly derivative and overlong sci-fi thriller.
The Blacklist is a terrific, inventive, entertaining and eccentric show by network standards. Indeed, by any standards.
Irish Times January 28, 2022 This is just cacophonous mayhem.
The Guardian January 26, 2022 This is the kind of movie that could be put on to keep young kids happy … though maybe not so happy as they could have been.
Let’s just say, Sing was stuffed with poignant/cheeky surprises and this new film’s not short of them either.
Globe and Mail December 20, 2021 If you’re looking for some lighthearted distraction from the worries of the world right now… give Sing 2 a shot.
Los Angeles Times September 23, 2013 There’s a more desirable reason to watch a show… and that is the sheer swoony pleasure of watching James Spader chew through scenes and scene...
It does, in its cheap-and-cheerful way, have fun.
TheWrap November 15, 2021 Not that the predecessor was much better in execution, but this time around the nearly wall-to-wall parade of pop songs rings oppressive in its rel...
Independent January 28, 2022 In Sing 2's defence, the film is at least enthusiastic about its own overabundance, and the new celebrity voice additions fit nicely into the mix.
At least you’ll come out whistling. [Full review in Spanish]
ReelViews December 21, 2021 It’s designed to be crowd-pleasing and, as a painless diversion, it works, even if the cynic in any viewer will recognize why it exists.
New York Times December 23, 2021 All glitz and no heart.
New York Post December 22, 2021 What makes «Sing 2» enjoyable are the tunes.
Despite its wild premise – Chris Pratt goes to the future to fight aliens! - and considerable talent, The Tomorrow War is mostly just bloated...
Narratively padded and visually overstuffed with CGI, The Tomorrow War plays out like Starship Troopers drained of Paul Verhoeven’s subversiv...
online.wsj.com September 19, 2013 How this works out over its many episodes isn’t easy to predict, but we have, at minimum, a strong beginning-Zamani notwithstanding-one that...
CNN.com December 23, 2021 It’s empty calories, and a highly calculated musical sugar rush. Still, this franchise from Illumination doesn’t really aspire to...
I don’t know if it was the fact that we now have several new characters on the show to give it a renewed energy or the fact that they se...
Variety September 18, 2013 Few series can boast such a compelling central figure.
The Blacklist, however, has seemingly been living on borrowed time for a while, making the prospect of returning to find out without Boone alm...
The Tomorrow War pretends it’s taking the high ground right as it plummets off the cliff of reason.
Where previous seasons may have asked us to bring something back from the long and winding serialization of Red-and-Lizzie, the premiere of season...
AV Club December 17, 2021 In this animalian world, there’s nothing more sacred than music. If only Jennings' off-key karaoke party had that same reverence for its sele...
Huffington Post September 23, 2013 The Blacklist is never going to be anyone’s idea of great art, but at least it has a pulpy kind of momentum that may well be worth watching f...
The Blacklist, though, seems to be setting itself up to be largely a bad-guy-of-the-week show, and the pilot’s first caper is not too pr...
There are some entertaining moments and the movie might have played better on the big screen, but it’s impossible to shake the feeling that y...
Associated Press December 20, 2021 While a laudable message for a kids movie, it’s drowned out by the movie’s commercialized blare.
Variety November 15, 2021 Think of it instead as an elaborate machinery of joy, and it’s easier to appreciate how every choice seems designed to put a smile on pe...
What’s depressing is that the director Chris McKay is a skilled satirist who, in previous outings… gleefully pilloried the very same tir...
It has been said that time travel movies are easy to do badly and difficult to do well. If that’s the case, then The Tomorrow War falls into...
It’s a lot of deluxe pablum you’ve seen before, but all you can eat of it.
The Tomorrow War is a movie that needed a surround sound, enormous screen experience – because its only value is in the spectacle.
«The Tomorrow War» is the surprise of the season, a stuffed-to-the-gills battle between evil aliens and terrified humans.
indieWire November 15, 2021 The pacing is so frenetic that audiences will likely never have more than a millisecond to appreciate the textures or the visual spectacle of ...
But if I had a time machine, I’d punt myself to the past just before The Tomorrow War went into production, and save everyone the trouble.
This is what summer movies are all about – endearing but flawed humans fighting aliens as they save all of humanity and resolve their family e...
Salon.com October 22, 2013 Where the problem lies… is in finding criminals as colorful as Reddington himself.
I’m really quite surprised at how conceptual this season 3 premiere turned out to be.
Here and now, The Blacklist is top-of-the-list escapism.
Hollywood Reporter September 20, 2013 Spader devours the script and steals every scene, basking in the power he has – more than the FBI thinks he has – the audience isn&rsquo...
The Guardian January 30, 2022 While there are no surprises whatsoever here, the perky charm remains.
HitFix September 23, 2013 Do I need to see another episode of this? Probably not. Will I watch it more just to enjoy Spader and see if Red’s motivation is the thi...
Action-packed and family-centric in a solidly commercial way, the pic may be missing that certain something that would have made it huge in th...
Grantland September 23, 2013 Luckily for everyone, Avengers director (and all-around nerdcore godhead) Joss Whedon is around to make the action figures move like real people.
The turning point in «Sing 2» happens about 45 minutes in, when a porcupine croons a wistful version of U2's «Stuck in a Moment...
Boston Globe July 1, 2021 The best thing in the movie is Pratt.
«The Tomorrow War» spends most of its time in the future, but its central theme is timeless: the replayed tragedy that sometimes you don’t co...
Spader remains the best reason to stay tuned to what is otherwise a fairly pedestrian espionage drama.
It’s not that sci-fi action movies need to seem realistic. But The Tomorrow War’s view of human nature feels so jarringly out of touch...
Blacklist came out like gangbusters, quite literally, even though James Spader is really all the reason we need to keep watching for now.
Los Angeles Times December 21, 2021 It’s a vibrant, amusing comedy whose story, from returning writer-director Garth Jennings, may be a bit overstuffed for its intende...
To that end, «The Tomorrow War» was lost from the moment that mega-blockbusters got so big they could only afford to have avatars instead of protag...
There’s nothing 'tomorrow' about a recycled sci-fi jumble that places all its bets on yesterday.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this premiere … is that while Red was as engaging and creepy-charming as ever, the tone didn’t waver when...
Yes, it’s a preposterous premise, and Boone as well as the character she plays are in over their heads, but if NBC is willing to spend m...
Boston.com April 26, 2018 «Return of the Jedi," the final act of George Lucas' first «Star Wars» trilogy, is the best one yet.
The Blacklist is both utterly shameless and, in its way, genuinely (if cynically) sophisticated.
A good movie exists within the mega futuristic world building of «The Tomorrow War," but Chris Pratt is incapable of delivering the multifaceted ch...
Hollywood Reporter November 15, 2021 Illumination Entertainment producers Christopher Meledandri and Janet Healy have clearly hit on a winning strategy, one that they unabashedly...
The Guardian July 1, 2021 It all feels like a heavy meal, and the action scenes and the creature effects are very derivative.
I took one look at The Tomorrow War’s dopey premise and knew I was all in.
