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65

2023

Scott Beck, Bryan Woods

Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika Williams

4.6

6,123

Sci-Fi. Adventure. Drama. Action An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd Gilchrist Variety	"[It] delivers requisite thrills even if its creativity seems stuck in the distant cinematic past"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"'65' represents such an uninspired effort as to look like a fossil even before the credits roll"	NEG
United States	Simon Abrams The Playlist	"A satisfying stew of genre tropes and classic sci-fi and monster movie influences, '65' is a popcorn movie that isn’t quite the intense thrill ride it gives the impression it wants to be, although it definitely has its moments"	NEU
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"There are '65' million reasons to avoid the new Adam Driver dinosaur space flick"	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"It's not schlocky enough to be so-bad-it's-good and nowhere near good enough to be taken even a tiny bit seriously"	NEU
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"[It] belongs to that gritty, grounded brand of modern action cinema that takes itself much too seriously and which is much too exhausting for that very reason"	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A scrappy adventure (...) isn’t as bad as its backstory would suggest but it’s missing something (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Underwhelming sci-fi actioner"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A film that isn't compelling enough to make for silly popcorn entertainment but isn't terrible enough to be labeled a disaster (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"Their film only gets truly enjoyably nutty toward the end. But by then, it's too late for us —and the planet (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"[A] entertaining popcorn movie (...) a highly efficient thriller from the writers of 'A Quiet Place'."	POS
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"[It] is a generally enjoyable man vs dinosaur action movie, but despite Adam Driver in the lead it doesn’t feature anything fresh or original"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"[It] is set millions of years in the prehistoric past—and its ideas are only slightly younger"	NEG
United States	Bob Strauss San Francisco Chronicle	"Not cheesy enough to be fun/bad nor awesome enough to compete with the 'Jurassic' movies of the world (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Brianna Zigler Paste Magazine	"The problems with the effects reflect the problems with the film at large, in which the clashing tones manifest a wannabe goofy, gnarly genre picture that won’t put in any of the work to make it so"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Driver makes for a formidable action lead worth watching, too. But the potential for what could’ve been had '65' fully embraced the absurdities of its plot is what lingers once it’s over (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Dex Wesley Parra Austin Chronicle	"If you go into '65' expecting 'Star Wars' meets 'Jurassic Park', lower your expectations (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, shot this mid-budget action-thriller mid-Covid, cleaving to that kind of B-movie template, and aiming, but failing, to match those emotional stakes (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"An old-fashioned disaster B-movie with a slickly presented sci-fi premise, '65' holds few surprises — but like Adam Driver’s resourceful, humane hero, it gets the job done (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Like Mills’s emotional back story, the special effects seem to have been pulled out of a box of secondhand ideas. Nor is the execution all that impressive. There’s little in the way of awe, suspense or surprise"	NEU
United States	John Serba Decider	"[It] isn’t going to leave an indelible impression on anyone, but for an it-is-what-it-is movie, you could do a hell of a lot worse"	NEU
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"Though there are movies that are worse than '65', it is part of a select few that manage to utterly and completely squander their own potential"	NEG
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"Is '65' ridiculous? Absolutely. Is it trope-y and occasionally too self-serious for its own good? Also yes. But did I still have the time of my life? You're darn right I did"	NEU
United States	Adam Mullins-Khatib Chicago Reader	"[It] is a half-spectacle where the danger is choreographed to the point of predictability, and what should be the highest stakes don’t ever feel particularly risky"	NEG
Canada	Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"So much about '65' could have been good, if just more effort had been made, from improving the script, to considering the best way to frame the action, to giving the actors more proverbial meat on the bones"	NEG
United States	Sarah Bea Milner SlashFilm	"'65' has enough to keep action and/or horror lovers at least mildly entertained (...) [It] mainly suffers from weak writing"	NEU
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"This one didn’t really work for me in the ways I expected (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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