Atlas
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): May 24, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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15
Negative:
11
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USA TodayBrian TruittMay 23, 2024
There’s a scrappiness to Atlas that pairs well with a human/machine bonding narrative and a fish-out-of-water Lopez trying to figure out how to work a super cool, high-tech armored suit and not die spectacularly. Read full review
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The TelegraphEd PowerMay 23, 2024
Atlas is a preposterous rollercoaster directed in workmanlike fashion by Brad Peyton (San Andreas, Rampage). However, it is helped hugely by the fact that Lopez (a co-producer) takes it all so seriously. Read full review
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IGNMatt DonatoMay 23, 2024
Brad Peyton oversees a futuristic action thriller that frequently plays like a clone of other cautionary tales about AI – but those movies, shows, games, and books don’t have Peyton’s secret weapon: Jennifer Lopez. She’s able to command the screen, bicker with software programs, and sell a convincing heroine’s arc from behind a mech-suit’s windshield. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryMay 24, 2024
A nonstop sci-fi action movie that basically gets the job done with a plot that recalls Disney’s “Big Hero 6,” just with a lot more cursing. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyMay 24, 2024
Atlas does have Jennifer Lopez in all her starry glory in the driver’s seat. It’s not nearly enough, but it’s something. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMay 23, 2024
You can’t say too many nice things about “Atlas.” You wouldn’t want to encourage people. And yet this cacophonous, big-budget, Jennifer Lopez-powered movie/videogame just might offer up a justification for humanity, while at the same time suggesting we need one. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanMay 23, 2024
The robot war is mere pretext for the saga of a woman learning to love again, starring a celebrity whose public persona is largely built around her willingness to let herself love again. Never mind the fact that there is no actual human love interest — in structure and theme, Atlas is a J.Lo rom-com in shiny metal packaging. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 23, 2024
This is a murky-looking, CGI-heavy dud. Read full review
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Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeMay 23, 2024
Atlas seems like a story that should have been experienced with a gamepad in hand. Read full review
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ColliderTania HussainMay 23, 2024
It’s moderately entertaining thanks to its VFX but falls short on its performances and story as the overall idea exceeds the final product. Read full review
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TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMay 23, 2024
Hidden somewhere beneath all the generic dialogue, embarrassing plot, mediocre action and oddly ineffective performances, there’s a good idea in Brad Peyton’s Atlas. It’s a shame the filmmakers never found it. Read full review
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The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMay 24, 2024
Science fiction often earns its place in memory by envisioning something new and startling — but with Atlas, we’ve seen it all before. Read full review
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Total FilmMatt LookerMay 24, 2024
Lopez takes admirable care of the story’s human elements, seizing opportunities to find emotion amid the weapons-grade pyrotechnics of the chaotic action sequences. But the effective (if minimal) world-building really just masks a thin plot, hammy characters, and the kind of questionable logic leaps you so often find in this sort of big, silly space movie. Read full review
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EmpireHelen O'HaraMay 24, 2024
Lopez throws everything at this, but even major movie-star charisma can’t make up for the recycled story elements, tired exposition and endless psycho-babble. Maybe the machines can take over and do better. Read full review
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Screen RantAlex HarrisonMay 23, 2024
Atlas is like an artificial sci-fi movie that walks and talks like the real thing, but just isn't. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 23, 2024
For a film that wants us to stop worrying and love big tech, Atlas does an awfully good job of showing us why we should still be wary of it. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJesse HassengerMay 24, 2024
AI may not be advanced enough to make a movie even as crappy as Atlas, but in the meantime, it seems like autocomplete is having a go at it. Read full review
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The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckMay 24, 2024
Atlas, an often ridiculous sci-fi epic with dialogue cheesier than a Brie wheel but also an old-fashioned, human heart o’ gold, is a J.Lo movie. Through and through. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardMay 24, 2024
Without a visionary director at the helm to make better use of its simplistic concept and with no infusion of camp to match its zanier facets, Atlas is a shrug. Read full review
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IndieWireKate ErblandMay 23, 2024
It’s like cinema made by Mad Libs, but worse, because we do realize actual people made this, not just randomized choices in a studio head’s office somewhere. Read full review
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We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsMay 24, 2024
Much like the AI we know in the real world, 'Atlas' is unable to turn its wealth of potential into much of anything worth engaging with. Read full review
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VarietyTodd GilchristMay 23, 2024
Atlas is predictable, overlong and bland, the kind of experience it’s hard to get excited about when the star player seems to be perfunctorily running the bases. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreMay 28, 2024
I’ve always liked Lopez. Like Brown. Have enjoyed Liu’s recent turns and I’ve always been on Team Mark Strong. But this is pretty bad, and can’t have been any fun to film, either. Read full review
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New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMay 28, 2024
Like most of Netflix’s films outside of awards season, “Atlas” is a sluggish afterthought that settles for being just short of OK. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 24, 2024
In “Atlas,” Jennifer Lopez does everything she can to act her way toward a good movie. Unfortunately, she can’t do it well enough to make a difference. Read full review
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The Daily BeastColeman SpildeMay 24, 2024
Instead of weaving any thoughtful critique into the film’s subtext, Atlas grounds its assessment of artificial intelligence into a powder so fine that it’s near translucent. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMay 24, 2024
Atlas is rote and routine, using the concept of sci-fi and artificial intelligence in the most obvious way: A.I. runs wild, attacks humans, and becomes the central enemy of the entire world; the ultimate threat that humanity must face, battle, and hopefully defeat. But all of it is conventionally realized, uninspired, dull, and something you’ve seen done more inventively a thousand times before. Read full review
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