Uglies
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 13, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
7
Negative:
8
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60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 12, 2024
It’s all about as familiar-feeling as it sounds, but it goes down easily thanks to McG’s skillful, fast-paced direction, the imaginatively lavish CGI-enhanced visuals, and King’s impressive performance. Read full review
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IndieWireSamantha BergesonSep 12, 2024
King can’t really play a teen anymore, and the message of non-conformity feels stale, in the YA adaptation space and beyond. This trend, much like shifting beauty standards, is already on the way out. Read full review
57
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 12, 2024
To say that it’s a fourth-generation knock-off of myriad similar YA sagas that have come before it would be an understatement. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 19, 2024
This is a kid’s movie for kids and may find a fervent audience among them, thanks to the way it conforms to the idea that virtue, hope and integrity are the exclusive purviews of youth. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 12, 2024
Everything about “Uglies” is average. Not terrible enough to be campy, not deep or provocative or visually impressive enough to merit further chapters in the story. Read full review
49
PolygonPetrana RadulovicSep 13, 2024
Uglies winds up being yet another uninspired, forgettable entry in the deluge of YA dystopian movies that make my passionate defense of the genre such an uphill climb. Read full review
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VarietyTomris LafflySep 12, 2024
While the YA genre can be very capable of unearthing outsized desires and rebellions in all of us, the problem here is the source material itself. Or rather, the timing of its screen adaptation. Read full review
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We Got This CoveredMarco Vito OddoSep 13, 2024
With a weak script and choppy editing, "Uglies" struggles to bring its dystopian world to life, wasting the potential of its cast and source material. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonSep 12, 2024
McG has concocted a fantastical, glossily repellent digital landscape that glows with neon and constant fireworks, causing the film to feel at once too sincere and too artificial. Read full review
30
ColliderEmma KielySep 12, 2024
What was once considered revolutionary or sharp commentary is now so passé and outdated that it makes the film feel like an ancient relic — a bad one. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 19, 2024
By the time the credits roll, it’s succeeded in creating zero interest in investing any more time in this universe or this story. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonSep 13, 2024
Uglies is an Orwellian tale with weak conviction. Among its contemporaries, it’s a disappointing volume in the YA dystopian canon. Read full review
20
The GuardianAdrian HortonSep 13, 2024
Though it supposedly argues against human beings turned into synthetic quasi-droids, Uglies feels like just another throwaway product. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubJacob OllerSep 19, 2024
All of Uglies feels like a rush job where its creators had the instruction manual but lost the proper parts. Read full review
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TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 12, 2024
A textbook example of what happens when movies are treated like content, something to fill a quota, not to be thought about or enjoyed, so that Netflix can tell their subscribers technically they have a new exclusive movie this week, quality be damned. And in this case quality was indeed damned. It was damned straight to hell. Read full review
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