Dreamland
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 13, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiNov 11, 2020
The film makes the most of its sparseness, using the strong performances of its ensemble cast (including a reliably excellent Margot Robbie) to question the accepted boundaries between right and wrong, citizen and outlaw. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesMay 3, 2019
A drama with dazzling visuals, subtle performances and deft nods to classics like Days of Heaven and Bonnie and Clyde. ... While Dreamland doesn’t entirely overcome its familiar trajectory, the film is so stunning in every other way that its narrative shortcoming hardly matters. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 18, 2020
The important thing is that Dreamland accomplishes its main intention, which is to make us invest in this strange love story. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckNov 12, 2020
The story itself is unremarkable, even thin — there are no surprising twists or turns, no big lessons in the script by Nicolaas Zwart — but the relationship at its core is hugely entertaining to watch. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 3, 2019
You’ve seen this story a thousand times before, but Joris-Peyrafitte’s expressive direction and Margot Robbie’s sheer force of will are enough to endow the movie’s best moments with the same hope-and-a-prayer immediacy that its heroes take with them as they speed towards the southern border. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiNov 13, 2020
While it's unlikely that this film will take up too much time in any future Lifetime Achievement Award clip reels, Dreamland is a testament to the importance of sheer star power to help carry even haphazard material along, at least up to a point. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 10, 2020
Dreamland is no masterpiece but it is a robustly made action drama, with impressive and even daring visual sequences. Read full review
60
Screen RantChris AgarNov 24, 2020
Dreamland is a fairly straightforward crime saga that doesn't reinvent the wheel, but is still enjoyable thanks to Robbie and its production values. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedNov 12, 2020
Dreamland doesn’t quite work, but she (Robbie) deserves an A for effort. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaNov 10, 2020
The new Margot Robbie vehicle Dreamland seems to be about legends, the price of escape, maybe unreliable narrators — but ends up not saying much about any of them. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineOleg IvanovMay 3, 2019
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s ultimately succumbs to melodramatic clichés and simplistic political demagoguery. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 12, 2020
It’s a lot of hooey and might have been at least tolerable if the movie had been rougher, meaner, tighter, and if the filmmakers — the writer is Nicolaas Zwart, the director is Miles Joris-Peyrafitte — had never watched a Terrence Malick movie. Read full review
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