Solo: A Star Wars Story
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
21
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMay 28, 2018
How keenly you respond to it will depend on how tempted you are by the salad days of Solo. Personally, I preferred him in “The Force Awakens” (2015), at the other end of his career. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMay 23, 2018
How does a movie about the galaxy's most dashingly roguish outlaw end up being the safest Star Wars to date? Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 21, 2018
Ron Howard has come through with a frisky space caper that zips along like a speeder on a bed of air. It’s far from perfect, but it’s much better than it has any right to be. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 17, 2018
Star Wars lore is woefully lacking in sex appeal — even Han Solo is more of a guy’s guy — but Glover has an unruly, charismatic elegance. He belongs in a better movie, but at least he perks this one up. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 15, 2018
It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it also holds whatever irreverent, anarchic impulses it might possess in careful check. Read full review
58
The Film StageConor O'DonnellMay 25, 2018
It’s the inconsistency under the surface of Solo that stunts its growth into a piece of this universe worth actively revisiting. Ron Howard manages to wrangle familiarity and charm into enough whimsical adventure to make for decent escapism, but the question of leaving a memorable mark may be another matter entirely. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 17, 2018
It may be the only official Star Wars feature that seems concerned exclusively with delivering a no-frills good time. Unfortunately, the film’s idea of a good time includes neither dynamite banter nor particularly memorable action scenes. Read full review
55
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMay 15, 2018
While the movie ends in a way that’s clearly designed to prompt further sequels, we don’t get that prequel X factor that makes us interested in a character arc whose outcome we already know. “Better Call Saul” knows how to do this; “Solo” doesn’t. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 23, 2018
An inelegant melding of a bland origin story with a generic heist tale, Solo never generates sufficient energy or interest to elevate it above the level of a failed curiosity. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 22, 2018
The neutral news about “Solo” is exactly that, its dramatic neutrality. Time ticks by at a drifty pace while lots of action of no great consequence grinds on. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMay 22, 2018
Solo is at its best when it keeps to the basics, and does them subtly. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 21, 2018
The stakes, gravitas, wit and great actors demonstrating great acting of “Rogue One,” the best of these new LucasFilms, are sorely lacking...“Adequate” is not what we want or expect from a “Star Wars” story. Read full review
50
VoxAlissa WilkinsonMay 19, 2018
The result is a bland heist movie in space that does nothing unexpected and never justifies its existence. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMay 16, 2018
Good fun, and all that, but its flawed central performance ultimately makes “Solo” a distinct disappointment. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMay 16, 2018
Howard stamps the material in some welcome ways: The scruffy breeziness of his early comedies (Night Shift, Splash, Gung Ho) suits the hit-and-miss script, by Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan. Here’s a Star Wars that’s more appealing when its characters are chatting than when they’re pew-pewing. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMay 15, 2018
Ehrenreich isn't given much to work with here, but his sly comic reserve and devil-may-care attitude give you reasons to keep watching, well after the story has stopped doing anything of the sort. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 15, 2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story gets the job done with little fuss, but also with precious little finesse. It might arguably succeed in teeing up the cinematic narrative that would change movies forever. But in both substance and execution, it bears but a whisper of the revolution to come. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneMay 15, 2018
The imprint of Star Wars on everyday American life now feels so despotic that it's too much to ask a film like Solo to be moving or thrilling as a piece of cinema. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 21, 2018
There’s nary a memorable shot in the whole film. As for Ehrenreich’s performance, it’s honestly difficult to tell how good he is. Remarkably for a film called Solo, with so many characters each one nibbling at the scenes, he hardly has room to shine. Read full review
40
SlateSam AdamsMay 15, 2018
It’s galling for a movie that costs so much and takes up so much cultural space to try to do so little, but it’s a familiar disappointment, like the dull ache of a tooth that only bothers you when you bite down on it wrong. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 15, 2018
If the goal here was to really understand how a brash kid from a backwater planet became an amoral smuggler, Solo failed. Han’s evolution in this movie is entirely superficial. He doesn’t become the character we recognize. When you get right down to it, the biggest thing about him that changes is he goes from wearing a vest to a jacket. Read full review
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