Don't Look Up
Netflix | Release Date: December 10, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 52 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
29
Negative:
8
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38
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenFeb 10, 2022
The comic setups take longer than they should, then the punchlines give you a violent bear hug when they should be lightly slapping you on the cheek before quickly moving on to the next gag. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comNick AllenDec 10, 2021
A disastrous movie, Don’t Look Up shows McKay as the most out of touch he’s ever been with what is clever, or how to get his audience to care. Read full review
33
The PlaylistJason BaileyDec 7, 2021
It’s cheap, and crass, and by the conclusion, downright infuriating. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneDavid FearJan 3, 2022
It’s a disaster movie in more ways than one. Should you indeed look up, you may be surprised to find one A-list bomb of a movie, all inchoate rage and flailing limbs, falling right on top of you. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 23, 2021
A plausible premise, right? Yes, absolutely, but it’s squandered in a slapdash, scattershot sendup that turns almost everyone into nincompoops, trivializes everything it touches, oozes with self-delight, and becomes part of the babble and yammer it portrays. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDec 7, 2021
A cynical, insufferably smug satire stuffed to the gills with stars that purports to comment on political and media inattention to the climate crisis but really just trivializes it. Dr. Strangelove it ain’t. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 7, 2021
Don’t Look Up plays like the leftie answer to “Armageddon” — which is to say, it ditches the Bruckheimer approach of assembling a bunch of blue-collar heroes to rocket out to space and nuke the approaching comet, opting instead to spotlight the apathy, incompetence and financial self-interest of all involved. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeDec 8, 2021
A film with all the right things to say about how government, the media, and corporations ignore the emerging disaster of climate change, but couched within a satire so lumbering that it’s enough to turn a tree hugger into a pro-fracker. Read full review
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