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Child's Play

2019

Lars Klevberg

Gabriel Bateman, Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry, Tim Matheson ...

5.0

4,508

Horror A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Despite all these upgrades, Chucky seems less intimidating than before (...) His personality isn’t all that interesting anymore."	NEG
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"The makeshift nature of Mancini's originals handily outshines this slick, corporate cash-grab."	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani Bloody Disgusting	"[It] builds to a satisfying climax. So satisfying (...) that it’s easy to wish the rest of the film had been more like it (...) As a 'Chucky' film, it can’t help but seem lacking (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"In trying to build a smarter 'Chucky', the filmmakers have assembled something unfathomably dumb"	NEG
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"The movie’s biggest strength is its balance between mordant humor and psychological fear (...) [It] suggest this creaky franchise isn’t quite played out yet."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The gore, which is plentiful, grows repetitive and dull (...) [It] quickly devolves into clichéd plot mechanics (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] at once repudiates Mancini’s franchise by attempting to make it bigger and bolder while falling back on ingredients we’ve seen before, and seen better"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A razor-sharp and exquisitely gruesome toy story (...) [It] bubbles with entertaining bad taste.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Christian Holub Entertainment Weekly	"[A] remake [that] dilutes Chucky's evil with more laughs than scares"	NEG
United States	Rosie Knight IGN	"A passable but plain remake that's saved by a blisteringly bonkers third act."	NEU
United Kingdom	Chris Hewitt Empire	"Making a killer-doll movie out of decent component parts should have been child’s play, but this misses the mark (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"[It] proves to be surprisingly enjoyable (...) It would deserve immortalisation for its shameless trolling of 'Toy Story 4' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Kievberg’s film deliberately evokes the hokey 80s charms of films like 'Gremlins', and is amusing enough so long as it tempers the nastiness."	POS

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