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Pixels

2015

Chris Columbus

Adam Sandler, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James ...

4.6

17,142

Comedy. Sci-Fi When aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper has to call on his childhood best friend, '80s video game champion Jules Brenner, now a home theater installer, to lead a team of old-school arcaders to defeat the aliens and save the planet.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"A dimwitted '80s nostalgia trip (...) He [Sandler] now seems barely capable of mustering enough effort to carry a scene (...) There’s no joy left in his shtick."
		Kyle Smith New York Post	"Game over for Sandler's career (...) IIt makes “Battleship” and “The Watch” look good (...) Rating: ½ ★ (out of 4)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'Pixels' has a few inspired action sequences and a handful of laugh-out-loud moments, but overall the special effects are surprisingly average — and the performances don’t help. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"I see Pixels as a 3D metaphor for Hollywood's digital assault on our eyes and brains. Not funny. Just relentless and exhausting (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"'Pixels' is a special-effects eyeful burdened by the fact that it is also yet another film in which Adam Sandler plays a man-child who somehow turns the head of an attractive woman"
		Inkoo Kang The Wrap	"'Pixels' is ultimately a thoroughly numbing experience, not least because all the characters are doomed by a psychological flatness more two-dimensional than any arcade-game screen."
		John Hazelton Screendaily	"It might prove a bit tame for many adults and not enough fun for kids (...) There are witty touches (...) but there’s also a mechanical feel to the action"
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"The truly mystifying thing about the movie is how desperately it caters to Gen-X junk nostalgia without bothering to think that maybe those Reagan-era kids have grown up a bit. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Fun for a bit but overstays its welcome."

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