Tomb Raider
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 52 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
27
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 15, 2018
After a brisk and promising opening half-hour set in London and Hong Kong, the movie devolves into a Saturday matinee B-movie, and not in a good way. It’s pure product, and a waste of a savvy leading actress. Read full review
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMar 15, 2018
A film so rife with plot holes that it would make a decent pasta strainer. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 14, 2018
Alicia Vikander worked herself into hardbody shape for Tomb Raider, which by contrast is a flabby, lazy mess. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 13, 2018
When your set pieces fail to surprise, your dialogue fails to deliver even one decent one-liner and your villain looks like he’s dealing with dysentery on location, maybe 17-18 years isn’t long enough between reboots. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 14, 2018
Norwegian director Roar Uthaug has had past success with nail-biting suspense, as in his well-received 2015 disaster movie “The Wave.” He can’t quite replicate that same tension here, however. Watching a tiny-but-tough woman survive one danger after another tests not only our credulity, but our patience. Read full review
30
Vanity FairJordan HoffmanMar 16, 2018
While I wasn’t exactly expecting greatness from the film, I did think it would contain a few thrills and maybe some laughs. Having Lara Croft leap around and avoid traps should be an easy formula—but for this crew, it remains an unsolvable puzzle. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 15, 2018
There are many ways for a movie to go wrong, and Tomb Raider goes wrong in many of the most obvious: It has a generic story, bad writing, a miscast lead, the wrong director and no fun. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 14, 2018
Story problems tank the new Tomb Raider — small, essential things like lack of motivation, lack of reasons for people to do the things they do, and lack of any reason for the audience to keep watching. Read full review
25
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMar 14, 2018
Unexceptionally directed by Roar Uthaug (Norwegian hit “The Wave“), Tomb Raider is superficial even for a mainstream tentpole, clumsily and unpersuasively put together and tests and breaks suspension of disbelief at every turn. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineJake ColeMar 14, 2018
This isn’t an adaptation of a video game so much as an adaptation of a video game’s tutorial level. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 15, 2018
Ms. Vikander has leapt into the void of a franchise reboot, based on a video-game reboot, that generates no joy, makes negligible sense, and seals its own tomb with a climax of perfect absurdity. Read full review
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