Hotel Artemis
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group | Release Date: June 8, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
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17
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJun 12, 2018
Ultimately, in all its artifice and haphazard but enthusiastic invention, Hotel Artemis makes me a bit nostalgic for French ’90s genre fare of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro and, of course, Luc Besson, embracing their daffiness and dreaminess with an somewhat counterintuitive, almost naïve lack of vanity. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 7, 2018
This isn't a movie that pretends to be profound. It's meant purely as B-movie entertainment, and -- also like the "John Wick" films -- it's fully aware of that. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczJun 6, 2018
The wannabe thriller set in the near future packs gritty style and ambiance, but that’s no match when the story has no stakes and doesn’t add up. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinJun 6, 2018
The flavorful cast inhabit vividly drawn characters, and, perhaps most of all, the film exudes wall-to-wall, high-grunge atmosphere. That’s a lot of checked-off boxes, and yet the effect is efficiently wild rather than wildly involving, entertaining but not indelible. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJun 6, 2018
For all of its faults, there’s still plenty here to praise, the result of so much being thrown at the wall is that some of it will stick. Pearce has a sharp creative flair and a head full of ideas but he feels somewhat hemmed in by the constraints of a short running time and a high profile release date. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 5, 2018
Mr. Pearce is also well-versed in staging and shooting decent action scenes, and building suspense enough to keep Hotel Artemis diverting in its overstuffed ambition. Add to that Ms. Foster’s welcome return to big-screen acting after a five-year layoff and you’ve got a movie almost worth seeing. Read full review
58
Paste MagazineMichael BurginJun 12, 2018
Despite the ingredients at hand, Pearce and company never really pull it together in a manner that realizes the potential. The result is a pulp buffet that feels like it should have been a gourmet meal—a Golden Corral of genre conventions (that leaves the audience feeling about as satisfied). Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 7, 2018
Positive points to the Hotel Artemis for trying to achieve something original, and for the quality of the cast. But after that bloody boldness, the analogies and the life lessons and the moments of closure are all too predictable and familiar. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 7, 2018
It boasts snappy dialogue, memorable characters, and a gorgeously designed central location but doesn’t quite know what to do with any of the above. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 7, 2018
Writer-director Drew Pearce’s Hotel Artemis, however, manages to make the most intriguingly bonkers premise a boring and flat exercise. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 7, 2018
Writer and director Drew Pearce makes his feature debut in a confused, jumbled film that never quite gets its story straight. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJun 7, 2018
There’s nothing especially striking about the movie’s visual presentation – the Artemis is threadbare and creaky, a purposely anachronistic blend of the future tech and throwback furnishings. The actions is competent, the performers game. Read full review
50
Washington PostMonica CastilloJun 6, 2018
Too many subplots make the story feel cluttered and no more intelligent. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 6, 2018
Like many movies set in colourfully bleak futures, Hotel Artemis can’t sustain the novelty of its initial world-building. Read full review
50
Village VoiceApril WolfeJun 6, 2018
Whether it’s the too-harried pacing or too many central people vying for attention, the film’s heart never quite coalesces. Seizing it is like trying to grab a cloud. Pearce seems to want this movie to be both a neon pulp plot-heavy piece and a character-driven drama, and there’s just not enough time in a single film for all of it to work. Read full review
45
TheWrapRobert AbeleJun 6, 2018
Though it boasts an agreeably preposterous scenario and a weird mixed bag of physicalities and acting styles — from Foster and Sterling K. Brown to Jenny Slate and Dave Bautista — the movie is itself an eye-rolling performance of cyber-pulp tropes and pop-movie excesses that undercuts its spotty pleasures at nearly every turn. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 6, 2018
A handful of amusing details in desperate need of a purpose, the film spends its first half looking for a compelling reason to exist, and its second half trying to disguise the fact that it can’t find one. Read full review
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