Avengers: Age of Ultron
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: May 1, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 49 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
12
Negative:
1
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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 1, 2015
Though a mess by all conventional narrative standards, Avengers: Age of Ultron is a fascinating case study in the rules of “universe” storytelling. Chief among them is that a film may not be self-contained — it must constantly allude to worlds outside its own. Marvel fans want extra characters, extra subplots, in-jokes that pander to their supposed breadth of knowledge. They don’t want closure. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonApr 30, 2015
For those more concerned with what “The Avengers” movies do best — outsize spectacle and wry comedy — Age of Ultron has to be declared a victory.
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 30, 2015
For a Marvel agnostic like me, the single most interesting thing about Age of Ultron is that you can sense that Mr. Whedon, having helped build a universal earnings machine with the first “Avengers,” has now struggled mightily, touchingly, to invest this behemoth with some life. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 30, 2015
The uncomfortable reality remains that although this movie is effective moment to moment, very little of it lingers in the mind afterward. The ideal vehicle for our age of immediate sensation and instant gratification, it disappears without a trace almost as soon as it's consumed. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 29, 2015
Age of Ultron -- for all the eye candy and mindless entertainment it has to offer -- stays safely within the franchise's established parameters. Here, there are no real surprises. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensApr 29, 2015
Age of Ultron, then, shows what happens when an unstoppable force (Joss Whedon’s imagination) meets an immovable object (the Disney/Marvel behemoth). And the result is, indeed, paradoxical: a crashy, overlong, FX-driven blockbuster that’s capable of morphing, Hulk-to-Banner style, into a loose-limbed ensemble comedy about collaboration, flirtation, and friendship. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonApr 28, 2015
[Whedon] wants to give us everything, and that he fits it all in is its own kind of feat. Age of Ultron is a middling film, yet it's so heavy with his sweat that it never feels like a lazy cash-in — which for a preordained summer megahit is an accomplishment. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonApr 21, 2015
Whedon has revealed that his first cut ran for well over three hours, and it shows: Ultron feels excessively nipped and tucked, barrelling from one explosive set-piece to the next, leaving ideas half-formed and character motivations murky. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyApr 21, 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron succeeds in the top priority of creating a worthy opponent for its superheroes and giving the latter a few new things to do, but this time the action scenes don't always measure up and some of the characters are left in a kind of dramatic no-man's-land. Read full review
58
IndieWireEric KohnApr 21, 2015
Whereas "The Avengers" felt like a reimagining of the paradigm for superhero movies, Age of Ultron has air of a rerun. Though impressively made and visually remarkable, it suffers from the hollowness that plagues so many blockbusters carrying the sense that we've been through this before. Read full review
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New York PostKyle SmithApr 29, 2015
Whedon keeps approaching ideas, but every time he does so he leaves a flaming bag of dog poop on the doorstep, rings the bell and runs away tittering. Read full review
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The New YorkerAnthony LaneApr 27, 2015
First, you try to understand what the hell is going on. Then you slowly realize that you will never understand what is going on. And, last, you wind up with the distinct impression that, if there was anything to understand, it wasn’t worth the sweat. Read full review
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