Thor: Love and Thunder
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: July 8, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 64 Critic Reviews
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60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJul 8, 2022
A lot of Love and Thunder’s individual parts are sharp, and the film is full of likable performers like Hemsworth, Portman, and Thompson. It’s not a terrible time at the theater. If you enjoyed the last Thor movie, you’ll probably enjoy this one. Just not as much. Read full review
60
ABC NewsPeter TraversJul 8, 2022
It’s barely half as funny, fierce, romantic and thrilling as 2017's incomparable Thor: Ragnarok, but director Taika Waititi and sweetly self-mocking star Chris Hemsworth get such goofball jollies sending up the usual Marvel bloat that resistance is futile. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenJul 7, 2022
The odd duff fight scene aside, Waititi is so good at this stuff, and he directs it all like a circus master eager to keep the entertainment coming. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensJul 7, 2022
If this particular franchise’s material feels at times a bit thin to be spun out even to two hours, it may be simply that three solo movies per Avenger is more than enough. But this weekend, if the lure of an air-conditioned summer blockbuster summons you like a sacred Asgardian hammer, you could do worse than this Easter egg–colored, classic rock–scored frolic. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 7, 2022
Waititi’s playfulness buoys Love and Thunder, but the insistence on Thor’s likability, his decency and dude-ness, has become a creative dead end. The movie has its attractions, notably Hemsworth, Thompson and Crowe, whose Zeus vamps through a sequence with a butt-naked Thor and fainting minions. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 5, 2022
A strange, strange film. Often in a good way. Sometimes not. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicKiMi RobinsonJul 5, 2022
Between Valkyrie ruling New Asgard and Jane Foster vanquishing shadow monsters as Mighty Thor, it seems early on as if the women would lead the way in “Love and Thunder.” It helps that, throughout, Thor is more often than not the butt of the joke. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 5, 2022
The film is probably on its strongest ground with the most purely absurd touches. Read full review
55
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJul 5, 2022
If this latest one was aiming to mix it up by giving equal weight to the masks of comedy and tragedy, it’s an effort that falls short. Read full review
50
UproxxVince ManciniJul 14, 2022
It’s weird more in a desperate, humanity-pushed-to-its-breaking-point kind of way, like it had so many commercial requirements pressing on its artistic sensibilities that the whole thing popped like a zit. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJul 13, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Taika Waititi, is far from the worst of Marvel’s big-screen offerings. It’s brisk, amiable, and straightforward...But the film passes through the nervous system without delivering any sustenance or even leaving a residue. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJul 8, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder is, like most of the Marvel films since Iron Man died, only intermittently amusing, a bit wobbly in its storytelling, thin in its emotional impact and more geared toward spectacle than coherence. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 6, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder is one of the goofiest and least consequential sagas in MCU history — an allegedly wild and wacky but ultimately disappointing and disjointed chapter in the ongoing story of the God of Thunder, who seems to get more clueless with each passing movie. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearJul 5, 2022
For something so reliant on dramatic engagement in addition to spectacle and giggles, Love and Thunder feels oddly unengaging; even the love and death aspects often feel like cold transmissions from distant sources. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJul 5, 2022
A little Waititi can go a long way, and the arch self-awareness that gave “Ragnarok” its kickiness feels increasingly tired here: more schtick than kick. Read full review
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CNETSean KeaneJul 5, 2022
Love and Thunder doesn't live up to the incredible stories that inspired it. It neither leans into its director's style or maximizes its cast's dramatic potential, feeling more like a shallow, unsatisfying mashup. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryJul 5, 2022
The impressive mix of tones and styles that director Taika Waititi pulled off in “Thor: Ragnarok” largely fizzles in “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which isn’t as funny as it wants to be, as stirring as it needs to be or romantic as it ought to be. Read full review
50
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelJul 5, 2022
As hard as the cast and Taika Waititi try, though, it just doesn't work. "Thor: Ragnarok" felt effortless. "Thor: Love and Thunder" is working very hard, and not getting a lot to show for it. Read full review
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PolygonJoshua RiveraJul 5, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder isn’t just a misfire, it’s a scam. Its characters only move forward in the most artificial ways. Their status at the end of the film is no more intriguing than it was at the beginning. It’s the worst thing a film in this mode can be: inconsequential. Read full review
45
The AtlanticDavid SimsJul 7, 2022
Love and Thunder offers the usual lightning-streaked action and tossed-off gags, but this time, there’s not enough heft behind the flashiness. Read full review
42
The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsJul 5, 2022
Sans some overarching Avengers narrative providing these standalone epics their thrust, Thor: Love and Thunder plays adrift and uneven, once again resistant to use its untethered narrative and leading hunk in any meaningful—meaningfully sexy—way. By film’s end, when one character tells another to “choose love,” I could hear a handful in my theater beginning to sniffle and cry. It’s hard to understand why. The only thing my eyes could do was roll. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJul 9, 2022
For the most part, however, this romp, which pits Thor against Christian Bale’s cadaverous God-slayer, is superficial stuff – a film that brings a greeting-card triteness to its themes of love and sacrifice; that harvests internet memes (screaming goats) in the service of easy laughs. Read full review
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CineVueChristopher MachellJul 8, 2022
Sadly, Love and Thunder proves that it’s possible to have too much of a good Thor. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJul 8, 2022
Waititi hasn’t always been the most precise at mixing pathos and humor (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, yes, Jojo Rabbit, no), and the calibrations in Love and Thunder are all off. Read full review
40
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardJul 7, 2022
Where Thor: Ragnarok was unpredictable and unruly in the most thrilling way, Love and Thunder by contrast feels safe and formulaic. Waititi is too preoccupied with trying to land the same jokes, and he burdens the film with a wishy-washy love story which even by the MCU’s low standards feels shallow and perfunctory. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekJul 5, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder is packed with gags and jokes, advertising itself so loudly as “Fun!” that it ceases to actually be fun. This is the way with Waititi, a gifted director who, now that he’s no longer required to wield a light touch, seems to have forgotten how to do so. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 5, 2022
As this latest gets under way, Thor has recovered his enviable god-bod but still has little sense of purpose. The problem with “Love and Thunder” is that it seems to reflect this identity crisis while pretending to solve it. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJul 5, 2022
Dipping less rewardingly from the same well in Thor: Love and Thunder, Waititi pushes the wisecracking to tiresome extremes, snuffing out any excitement, mythic grandeur or sense of danger that the God of Thunder’s latest round of rote challenges might hope to generate. Chris Hemsworth continues to give great musclebound himbo, but the stakes never acquire much urgency in a movie too busy being jokey and juvenile to tell a gripping story. Read full review
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