Moonfall
Lionsgate | Release Date: February 4, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
19
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyFeb 3, 2022
It’s exhausting. It’s exhilarating. And it’s exactly as absurd as you could ever hope it would be. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 3, 2022
Moonfall is stupid, in other words, but I don’t mind admitting that it feels, at this point in time, like my kind of stupidity. Read full review
58
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerFeb 3, 2022
It’s not that a great disaster movie can’t be made in two hours or less, it’s that Roland Emmerich doesn’t know how to do it. Read full review
55
The AtlanticDavid SimsFeb 14, 2022
For all its cheesiness, the film is still entertaining—my entire row at the theater had fun cackling at clunky dialogue and absurd lunar lore. If you’re looking for a nice, empty-brained evening at the movies, Moonfall is the ticket to buy right now. Read full review
50
ColliderRoss BonaimeApr 12, 2022
Moonfall, unfortunately, becomes a mixture of Emmerich’s usual clichés that are starting to show their age, a script that only occasionally embraces the insanity of this idea (even though the third act goes all-in on getting mind-numbingly stupid), and a scope that doesn’t do this story justice. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenFeb 8, 2022
Other than these visual delights, Moonfall isn’t much fun. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 4, 2022
First hour: pretty lousy and not much fun. Second hour: pretty lousy but more fun, and the movie has the benefit of getting stranger and stranger as it gyrates. Read full review
50
CNETRichard TrenholmFeb 4, 2022
Moonfall could be some kind of arch meta-comment on the excesses and artifice of the Hollywood zeitgeist. Or maybe it's just the dumbest movie ever. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 3, 2022
Moonfall is the kind of film that doesn’t take itself seriously and yet really doesn’t have a sense of humor about the ludicrous nature of its very existence. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 3, 2022
The only problem with this movie, a substantial one, is that there’s a major sag in the story about halfway through. For its first hour, Moonfall is a blast. Read full review
50
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 3, 2022
Moonfall makes its big ideas feel small and unimportant. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodFeb 3, 2022
It may be bloated, but Moonfall always feels like it’s moving at a somewhat brisk pace. And the filmmaker’s greatest talent is collaborating with visual effects teams to craft images that somehow get seared in your brain. Read full review
40
Little White LiesCharles BramescoFeb 4, 2022
It’s all very stupid, if only sometimes in an amusing way. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellFeb 4, 2022
Moonfall is every bit as big, loud and stupid as you'd expect, but Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic is also an unforgivably dull slog. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 3, 2022
The film is less like a full-fledged story than a series of notifications you might get on your phone, most of them couched in language that could have been generated by a buggy AI program. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiFeb 3, 2022
If nothing else, Emmerich certainly knows how to create catastrophe while providing a sense of hope despite everything. Does that save Moonfall from being messy? No, but surely some will find it enjoyable regardless. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 3, 2022
Although Moonfall is packed with such giddy good cheer that its abundant narrative cliches and dismal dialogue are almost part of the charm, even game performances from Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson aren’t enough to save the day. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 3, 2022
The film sounds actively embarrassed by what it’s trying to pitch, and reverse-engineers its sci-fi elements to fit the default disaster template Emmerich could apply in his sleep. We’re promised the Moon, but sold a lemon. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentFeb 3, 2022
Moonfall is precisely what you’d expect a film called Moonfall to be: deeply, defiantly, sometimes exasperatingly daft. It’s Roland Emmerich on apocalypse-autopilot. Read full review
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