Fountain of Youth
Apple TV+ | Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
15
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
IndieWireKate ErblandMay 22, 2025
Occasionally muddled, mostly convoluted, and yet still broadly entertaining, it’s a shame this glossy and big budget affair (you really can’t fake Egyptian pyramids like these), will only exist as a streaming pick on Apple TV+. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 22, 2025
Portman acquits herself charmingly, as she usually does in her occasional slumming blockbuster role; maybe she and Krasinski should have swapped parts. The erstwhile Jim Halpert isn’t even all that terrible here; at least he makes his character’s smarmy-doofus quality work for his non-relationship with Esme. The real star, though, is Ritchie’s unflagging spirit, as if chasing after bigger blockbusters in the 2010s led him to his own rejuvenating fountain. Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrMay 23, 2025
It’s a movie designed as functional entertainment, and for lack of a better word it functions. Read full review
60
IGNLuke ReillyMay 29, 2025
Fountain of Youth is a robust showcase of Guy Ritchie’s eye for action, but it falls well short of capturing the magic of the quintessential treasure-hunting movies it’s so clearly trying to replicate. Read full review
60
Paste MagazineMatthew JacksonMay 22, 2025
The movie stars are present, the film looks slick and shiny, and the adventure doesn’t ever let up, but something about it ultimately rings hollow, and by the second hour, you’re left wondering what the point of all of this is, at least until the characters outright explain it to you without any real emotional payoff. Read full review
60
ColliderNate RichardMay 22, 2025
It's a perfectly watchable movie that feels designed to keep you entertained for two hours on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanMay 22, 2025
Unfortunately, there is an uncanny lack of urgency in the film. The characterizations are flat, the would-be quippy dialogue rarely elicits laughs, and the action sequences seldom rise above the level of satisfactory. Read full review
50
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldMay 22, 2025
The film lacks the wonderment and excitement of Indiana Jones, but it's not quite as dumb as "The Da Vinci Code," and certainly less obnoxious than, say, "Red Notice." Read full review
50
VarietyTodd GilchristMay 22, 2025
Despite Guy Ritchie’s herculean efforts to combine a whole lot of immediately familiar elements into a brisk, occasionally imaginative “adventure movie” potpourri, screenwriter James Vanderbilt’s reinvention of footnotes from his real-life family history never quite achieves the consistent balance between real-world seriousness and buoyant escapism demanded of a globe-trotting treasure hunt like this. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMay 22, 2025
The film is the sort of mindless, glossy entertainment tailor-made for streaming, even if its large-scale action sequences and exciting locations would look great on the big screen. Read full review
50
Screen RantAlex HarrisonMay 22, 2025
Ritchie is a prolific action director, and he leans action here, which is fine. When it's not being distractingly stylized, the action is good. But treasure hunt movies have a nerdy side that sometimes feels undervalued by this film. Read full review
45
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 22, 2025
Merely a cheeky pantomime rather than an actual adventure in which one might get swept up. Read full review
40
EmpireBen TravisMay 22, 2025
Given all the elements involved, Fountain Of Youth should be a blast. That it isn’t is a real disappointment. Maybe best left buried. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 22, 2025
This is a film that’s fun to complain about. Read full review
40
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMay 22, 2025
I would seriously consider cutting off one of my own fingers if it meant I didn’t have to spend two hours alone in a room with John Krasinski’s protagonist from Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherMay 22, 2025
This Indiana Jones knock-off is staggeringly slapdash. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGlenn KennyMay 22, 2025
The movie acknowledges its many antecedents. Read full review
40
The GuardianRyan GilbeyMay 22, 2025
Amid interminable chases and fisticuffs, and tourist-board jaunts to Bangkok, Vienna and Cairo, there is the odd bright spot. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 28, 2025
Fountain of Youth is a perfect example of something that can play in the background but proves singularly unable to hold anyone’s attention for the entirety of its running length. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 23, 2025
When future generations of media scholars need an example of a work that gathered up and displayed with peerless skill all of the techniques yet devised for a new medium—in this case, second-screen entertainment, which superficially resembles cinema or television, but is meant not to make any demands on anybody—”Fountain of Youth” might be the work that they they name-check. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMay 22, 2025
Fountain Of Youth may feel superficially dynamic, and cinematically, it sure tries its best to trick you into thinking it’s a vigorous thing, but it’s just a cup filled with empty calories, sustaining nothing and ironically, only just wasting precious minutes off your life. Read full review
30
LooperAlistair RyderMay 22, 2025
For a director whose recent work output suggests he moves straight onto the next project the second he calls cut on the last, it's surprising how much of Fountain of Youth feels reshot in post. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 24, 2025
Krasinski and González manage some light mid-brawl banter that hints at “chemistry” that the script doesn’t really provide. Portman soldiers through it, with Gleason at his least inspired and Ritchie helming his uncoolest clunker since his divorce from Madonna. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 22, 2025
The movie goes to Vienna, to Egypt and to Italy and was probably more fun to make than watch. Read full review
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