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Eternals

Eternals

2021

Chloé Zhao

Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington ...

5.6

17,406

Fantasy. Action. Sci-Fi. Drama The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"Unfortunately, the exceedingly earnest narrative struggles to juggle its many subplots and tries to do too much in its hefty two hours and 37 minutes (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"One of the more interesting movies Marvel will ever make, and hopefully the least interesting one Chloé Zhao will ever make."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Chloé Zhao’s marvel movie is finely crafted but needed more of her personality to be marvelous (...) a fluid and sometimes bedazzling entertainment"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The flashbacks interrupt whatever momentum Zhao builds, while the yammer only further muddies an already convoluted story."	NEG
United Kingdom	Nicholas Barber BBC	"Watchable but ultimately unmemorable. It could be the most disappointing MCU film yet (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The soulfulness, the contemplative weight of Zhao’s vision at least puts this among the more interesting and original entries in the ever-expanding canon."	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"An overlong (2 hours 45 minutes) movie that is one of Marvel’s dullest efforts in years—a convoluted film that is enervating and uninvolving"	NEG
United States	Oliver Jones The New York Observer	"A film full of wonder and romance and fueled by an agenda and audacity all its own (...) [It] is a rare reminder of the power and purpose of event filmmaking (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"Director Chloé Zhao’s entry into the superhero world is assured, ambitious and told on a dizzyingly cosmic scale — but even it can’t escape the clichés of superhero storytelling (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Amelia Emberwing IGN	"Eternals is huge. Centuries worth of stories and a whole team of vastly different heroes are condensed into a visually stunning and impeccably acted film"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"The Nomadland director manages to get some nice-looking shots and personal drama in her superhero debut, but there’s just too much mythology to explain (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"Colossal, Cosmic and Refreshingly Close Up (...) [It] is both a Marvel superhero epic, as massively conceived as they come, and unquestionably Zhao’s version of one"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Marvel effectively illustrates why even the most independent-minded of filmmakers are powerless to evolve an apex predator franchise that doesn’t have any Darwinian impetus to adapt."	NEU
Canada	Molly Freeman Screen Rant	"Zhao is able to provide enough of a different Marvel movie experience for Eternals to feel fresh a thrilling, epic superhero adventure"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Perhaps the hope was that Marvel’s 26th film might rattle the franchise out of its comfort zone. But the franchise is nothing but comfort zone (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"A movie that does eventually manage to find the perfect median between the mythic weirdness of Kirby's comics and Zhao's meditative naturalism. The only problem is that it takes a long time to get there"	NEU
Canada	Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"A rare, altogether disappointing stumble for Marvel (...) There's sadly little to recommend 'Eternals' except an unsurprisingly talented cast giving their next-level best to bring some life to their characters"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"One of Marvel's worst movies so far (...) Seriously, what a snooze (...) All the characters are similarly bland (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"Prepare to be wowed. But not in the way you think. 'Eternals' is a plea for diversity and empathy wrapped in an eye-popping blockbuster that keeps springing surprises you don't see coming (...) Unique and unforgettable"	POS
United States	Conor O'Donnell The Film Stage	"Though not an entirely colossal failure, 'Eternals' has a Sisyphean problem with authenticity: the greater its attempts at specific, deeply felt connection, the more it feels like a broad, insecure, corporate pander"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"It's a shame 'Eternals' devolves into such a run-of-the-mill superhero movie, given it features some groundbreaking and/or relatively unusual elements (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Angelica Jade Bastien Vulture	"With 'Eternals', Marvel proves itself to be nothing more than a staid, lumbering black hole."	NEG

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