‘Dog Stars’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Say Ridley Scott’s Movie Is For Dogs
Key art from The Dog Stars featuring Josh Brolin, Jacob Elord, Margaret Qualley and Guy Pearce.
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Ridley Scott’s dystopian thriller The dog starsstarring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin, doesn’t entirely impress critics despite the level of talent involved.
Based on the best-selling 2012 novel of the same name by Peter Heller, The dog stars opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. Elordi (Guillermo del Toro) frankenstein) stars in The dog stars as Hig, a young pilot in a post-apocalyptic world who, along with a survivor, Bangley (Brolin), ventures into the dangerous unknown after receiving a mysterious radio transmission.
quality (Happy Gilmore 2) plays Cima, a young doctor and Hig’s girlfriend, while Guy Pearce (The brutalist) plays Cima’s father, Jack, a former Navy SEAL.
Rated R, The dog stars It also stars Oscar winner Allison Janney (me, tonia) and Benedict Wong (doctor strange).
Starting Thursday night, The dog stars has earned a 40% “rotten” rating on rotten tomatoes Tomatometer based on 122 reviews. RT Critics consensus, audience summary, and Popcornmeter score based on verified user ratings are still pending.
What do individual critics say about ‘The Dog Stars’?
Helen O’Hara Empire Magazine is among the main critics of RT who gives The dog stars a “rotten” score, and writes: “It’s a beautiful, mountainous twist on the post-apocalyptic genre, but too familiar and too depressing to really stick in the mind.”
Soren Andersen Seattle Times also gives the film a “rotten” score, writing in RT“The dog stars It’s a clunky contraption that creaks and sputters against the image’s post-apocalyptic landscape. “It never rises.”
Juan Wenzel of the Denver Post not impressed with The dog starsany. Wenzel writes in his “rotten” RT review summary: “For all their technical confidence and pleasant faces, The dog stars it wastes the talent of its actors and trades true vision for familiar action. There is little to analyze after the camera zooms in on the stars and the screen fades to black.”
Robert Daniels of Roger Ebert also consider The dog stars “rotten,” he wrote on RT, “It probably takes more effort to make a boring post-apocalyptic survival action movie than it does to make a good one. If that’s the case, then Ridley Scott must have been working overtime.”
William Bibbani The wrapper he simply writes in his “rotten” review summary of The dog stars on RT, “There are too many flaws in these stars. Wow.”
Tim Grierson of International Screen praises Ridley Scott’s filmmaking in his “fresh” review of The dog stars in RTwriting, “This is ultimately redeemed by the veteran director’s careful attention to his characters, who become far more invested in their shared pain than when fighting the kind of enemies one expects in this kind of film.”
David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter He is also a fan of The Dog Stars. Rooney writes in his “fresh” review summary about RT“Jacob Elordi leads with the introspective magnetism of a movie star that evokes Kevin Costner’s heyday, while cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s panoramic views give the slow-paced but engrossing story a restorative grace.”
In his “fresh” review of the film about RTSimon Crook time is up praises the film’s subtle moments, the writing. “While there are bursts of crazy max crazed, The dog stars “It’s a surprisingly sensitive meditation on what we might have lost.”
Nick Schager of The daily beast also gives The dog stars a “new” review score, but has reservations. Schager writes in his RT summary: “No amount of aesthetic splendor can compensate for the derivative nature of the director’s latest, a post-apocalyptic thread that’s sewn from the decaying parts of its genre forebears.”
Adapted for the screen by Mark L. Smith and Christopher Wilkinson, The dog stars opens nationwide in theaters on Friday.
