This ultimately empty if visually interesting film still left a huge impression on a certain generation.

| Apr 4, 2025

A bizarre Disney-fied mash-up of FORBIDDEN PLANET and STAR WARS, this darker existential story is imperfect but also fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2024

If you have a child in need of distracting, take them without fear to this inoffensive entertainment. In any other case, fear this black hole without end. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 16, 2024

For all its undoubted spectacle The Black Hole is fundamentally a disappointment. Buried within it somewhere is a serious picture with an adult theme but only fragments of it remain.

| Jul 25, 2022

Seeing this film makes it all the easier to appreciate the quality of Star Wars.

| May 18, 2022

In less than 100 minutes, it tells its story well, and the effects are perfectly fine for what it needs to accomplish.

| May 14, 2022

More unsettling and confusing than it is fascinating.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 27, 2020

The Black Hole may look like 20 million bucks, but its scenario is worth about 20 cents.

| May 27, 2020

The end result of this recipe -- cooked with very little conviction, but with a generous budget -- is one more chapter in a story that has been told before. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 14, 2019

No matter what its story means to tell us about the sterility of science and the tyranny of the computer, The Black Hole is executed with such impersonal craftsmanship that it ends up on the side of the machines.

| Jul 19, 2019

Desperately tries to fuse Disney's characteristic kiddie funtime japery with Star Wars-style action and world-building.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2014

Despite Oscar nominations for cinematography and visual effects, the Black Hole, an attempt to cash in on the sucess of Star Wars, leaves much to be desired.

| Original Score: C | Apr 7, 2012

It is good to see the Disney craftsmen doing what they do best on such a grand and risky scale. If one has time for only one space opera this season, this is the one to choose.

| Mar 9, 2009

The problem...is that the protagonist, Schell, is nuts, and we find it difficult to root for him. The other characters are never fully developed, and so the picture becomes a triumph of style over substance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2009

Is let down by the weak script.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 22, 2007

The science of this fiction is as hokey as the drama, but the imaginative art design and excellent special effects are magnificent.

| Oct 13, 2007

An elegant, if stubbornly unexciting, popcorn-muncher that flips into a chin-scratcher, with a crew of mostly bland heroes.

| Original Score: C | Jul 23, 2007

Ranks among the very best films to come from the post-Star Wars sci-fi boom.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2007

...ultimately revealed to be an underrated and surprisingly dark Disney effort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2006

Disney's most ambitious and costly production to date -- about a spaceship crew which encounters a Black Hole and a long-lost madman -- and if looks were everything, you could hardly fault it.

| Feb 9, 2006