Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: May 10, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 57 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
19
Negative:
2
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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 11, 2024
The Planet of the Apes movies were built on rage and shame about the world as it exists. And whatever its many flaws, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes gets that largely right. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 11, 2024
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a patchwork quilt of familiar notions. Read full review
50
ABC NewsPeter TraversMay 10, 2024
No. 10 in the series proves there’s still life, artful cosplay and action monkeyshines in the ape-verse that began in 1968, but a worrying case of franchise fatigue is sneaking in. Whatever happened to quitting while you're ahead? Read full review
60
NMENick LevineMay 9, 2024
The climactic setpiece isn’t quite an action spectacular, but it does feel tense and narratively satisfying. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensMay 9, 2024
Despite its impressive attention to craft—including exquisite motion-capture work by the groundbreaking digital-design studio WETA—Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes never fully establishes its reason for being. Read full review
50
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardMay 9, 2024
Kingdom certainly has its moments, but the rougher, darker edges of predecessors Dawn, Rise and War have been smoothed out, leaving us with an over-long, relatively low-stakes instalment sorely lacking in originality. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 8, 2024
There will be fresh heroes to cheer, fresh villains to hiss at, fresh metaphors about power and corruption and history repeating itself to scratch your chin over. Yet a curious sense of staleness starts to set in even before the first act of director Wes Ball’s entry pits ape against ape. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 8, 2024
More brains and less brawn probably isn’t a prescription for box-office success for a movie like this. But it’s a movie I’d rather see. Read full review
50
PolygonJoshua RiveraMay 8, 2024
Kingdom merely seems like an act of franchise maintenance, a reversal for a series of unusually thoughtful blockbusters. Every frame is a technical marvel. And every minute of it is probably better spent watching something else. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraMay 8, 2024
It's less action-heavy than the last trilogy and inevitably more ape-centric, but this is a promisingly chewy start for the latest series of simian thrillers. These apes are still strong. Read full review
55
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeMay 8, 2024
For all its craft, though, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes never finds the “aha” moment that justifies returning to the well for reasons more pressing than branding and global markets. Read full review
60
Time OutDan JolinMay 8, 2024
It also benefits from some engaging supporting characters. Read full review
40
BBCCaryn JamesMay 8, 2024
Behind the impressive CGI, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the definition of generic, all two hours and 25 minutes of it. The ending teases a sequel that offers a more intriguing conflict ahead, but that doesn't help us now. Read full review
58
The Film StageAlistair RyderMay 8, 2024
It’s the ideal third act for a Planet of the Apes movie––whether you want to sit through an extensive, near-90 minute journey that represents everything wrong with dystopian world-building in contemporary blockbusters to get there, however, is up to you. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithMay 8, 2024
Entertaining enough but inessential, Kingdom offers spectacle and thrills but lacks the ambition, smarts, and gravity of its immediate predecessors. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 8, 2024
There are some scenes here as lively and as thoughtful as any in this great series’ history. But then that final sequence reminds viewers that this is a franchise still thinking about the way things were, and not with the way things are — or could be in the future. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 8, 2024
The film becomes rather jumbled and preposterous by the very end, but not before some perfectly good action sequences, and the CGI ape faces are very good. This franchise has held up an awful lot better than others; now it should evolve to something new. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMay 8, 2024
The film is good enough to deserve the sequels towards which it there gestures. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJake ColeMay 8, 2024
By the time the demands of big-budget spectacle take over in the final act, a film that initially stands out from the pack in imagining a different perspective of the world ends up looking all too disappointingly like everything else in the current mega-budget cinema landscape. Read full review
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