Mickey 17
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 60 Critic Reviews
Positive:
44
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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60
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 6, 2025
Bong is a consummate cinematic craftsman, virtually incapable of creating a dull frame. What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 5, 2025
No matter a committed performance (two, actually) from Robert Pattinson, it’s an original that plays like a rehash—and an underwhelmingly unfunny one at that. Read full review
60
LooperAlistair RyderFeb 15, 2025
It's the weakest of his three English language efforts due to it feeling like he's watering down his satirical approach, spoon-feeding exposition to his audience alongside each joke under the worry that the parody might go over their heads. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 15, 2025
Bong’s adventurous new film barrels forward with chaotic plotting, as is often the case with the director’s work. But thematic coherence remains frustratingly elusive. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 15, 2025
It’s eerie, startling — and yet also unexpectedly benign. Read full review
50
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMar 8, 2025
On the whole, though, Mickey 17 tests our patience. While the dispensable clones premise is intriguing, and opens a door to the kind of socioeconomic commentary so signature to Bong, the film quickly grows distracted by other matters entirely. Read full review
50
Film ThreatAlan NgMar 7, 2025
While Bong Joon Ho delivers his signature visual flair and Robert Pattinson fully commits to the existential dread of his endlessly disposable character, the film struggles to keep its high-concept ideas fresh past the first act. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 7, 2025
A mostly failed attempt to merge sci-fi with satire, Mickey 17 suffers from a fragmented narrative and a scenery-chewing performance from Mark Ruffalo that belongs in a different movie (perhaps Poor Things). Read full review
50
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMar 5, 2025
It’s far from terrible and a pleasure to look at. But, perhaps inevitably, after such a raging success, Bong’s latest movie is a disappointment. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonMar 5, 2025
While the visuals are often stunning, and the first hour has a loose, raunchy charm, “Mickey 17″ wears out its welcome long before its overlong, nearly t2½-hour runtime ends. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckMar 5, 2025
In an extremely physical, committed, even exhausting performance, Pattinson takes what could have been an unwieldy mess and makes it much less, well, expendable. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 15, 2025
Though it earns points for sheer oddity (and the nearly monochromatic, future-noir look established by DP Darius Khondji and production designer Fiona Crombie), too much of “Mickey 17” turns out to be sloppy, shrill and preachy — ironically, the same things that make Mark Ruffalo’s deliberately Trump-styled villain so grating in this movie. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 10, 2025
The time may feel right for a wry dystopian sci-fi adventure-comedy. But as satires go, this one is more mild than habanero. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 6, 2025
Mickey 17, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, feels like a rickety compromise bolted together from incompatible parts. Read full review
40
BBCHugh MontgomeryFeb 15, 2025
Again and again lines and scenes strain for comic effect, but fail to deliver the goods. Read full review
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