Domino
Saban Films | Release Date: May 31, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
9
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The New York TimesGlenn KennyMay 30, 2019
De Palma can’t realize all the elaborate effects he clearly wanted (the film’s climax occurs at a bullfight that’s conspicuously not crowded). But his direction often compensates with B-movie energy, particularly when he’s able to concentrate on his perverse vision. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 3, 2019
Domino is a lackluster, hard-to-swallow police procedural with soap opera-ish subplots and flat characters. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMay 30, 2019
There’s just not enough of that good De Palma stuff here. The lush Pino Donaggio score and some well-choreographed chase sequences only hint at the movie Domino could’ve been, if a great artist had been granted access to his full palette. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 29, 2019
Just when you want to outright dismiss it, a pinprick of sound and vision peeks through the straight-to-DVD dross. And just when you start to think someone’s starting to gin up that old black magic, the whole thing simply topples over with a loud thud. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNiles SchwartzMay 27, 2019
The film goes through its motions too quickly for its imagery to convey the irrepressible force of provocation. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 30, 2019
The most damning thing about Domino is that it reaffirms what all but the filmmaker’s most deluded fetishists have long since concluded: The world has caught up with Brian De Palma — his fascination with voyeurism and violence have been sublimated into the stuff of everyday life — and the guy is basically just circling the drain. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 3, 2019
When De Palma started taking himself too seriously—circa Casualties of War—is when he lost the thread. His genius was always in voluptuous nonsense. He needs to drop the politics and get back to baby carriages. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMay 27, 2019
He (De Palma) has rarely been guilty of dullness, as he is with Domino, a counterterrorism thriller offering just slightly more excitement than the average TV police procedural. Read full review
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