The movie, adapted from Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel by Michael Wilson and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, effectively explored class divides and slavery, all wrapped up in an intriguing high-concept mix of sci-fi and fantasy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2024

It draws its best cards in a dystopian plot that, in its clash of civilizations, questions the self-destructive human nature without losing sight of the visual sense that creates a world of intelligent apes with prosthetic makeup. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 5, 2024

Sci-fi is no longer crawling. In this movie, it stands up and walks, stumbles, stumbles again, but stays on its feet.

| May 2, 2024

An old-fashioned anything-goes hair-raiser that takes us back to the Saturday afternoon of childhood, when we could like movies without feeling compelled to explain why. As black comedy, it's an elbow-in-the-ribs triumph of excess.

| May 2, 2024

The best American movie I have seen so far this year. Considering the competition, that is, perhaps, faint praise, but the movie is at least alive. By this I mean that it is alive to -- and delighted with -- its own possibilities.

| May 2, 2024

A triumph of artistry and imagination, it is at once a timely parable and a grand adventure on an epic scale. Provocative as it is entertaining, it is a true screen odyssey.

| May 2, 2024

Boulle's science-fiction mind bender, hypoed by the tingling realism of the camera work and the action sequences, has become an enthralling film that spikes a few non-fiction truths along the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2024

Taken as a fast-paced adventure fantasy, Planet of the Apes provides enjoyable entertainment, although the society switcheroo is laboriously handled by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling.

| May 2, 2024

If you can forgive, or ignore, the low-grade gags, you should find Planet of the Apes a first-rate science fiction adventure enriched with serious moral, theological and social implications.

| May 2, 2024

[Planet of the Apes] has a strong basic theme and a finale which is so powerful and at the same time frightening that only an adult mind can appreciate the implications. It is one of the most worth while productions of the year.

| May 1, 2024

The detailed development is lacking in inspiration and thus prevents what might have been a brilliant satire from being anything more than a better-than-average science-fiction melodrama.

| May 1, 2024

Much of the credit for making this final message almost totally persuasive must go to the make-up department: underneath those flexible simian masks real characters evolve.

| May 1, 2024

Exactly what good science-fiction entertainment should be -- an interesting conjecture about the future, sardonically influenced by the way man is behaving today.

| May 1, 2024

Planet of the Apes is far more than a successful put-on. It is an ironic, sometimes bitter satire on the foibles of our society.

| May 1, 2024

I can believe that man is less superior than monkey, but this joke is carried too far and too long.

| May 1, 2024

A science-fiction thriller with a great deal of imagination, a sturdy sense of satire, and a workmanlike job from its technical crew.

| May 1, 2024

Interesting science fiction... Maurice Evans is good as [Charlton Heston's] persecutor, an orangutan minister of science.

| May 1, 2024

McDowell and Hunter [are] as silly looking a pair as you're ever likely to meet.

| May 1, 2024

[Planet of the Apes] has the total effect of amusing viewers while making monkeys out of us to display our contemporary human foibles.

| May 1, 2024

Planet of the Apes is superior science-fiction with a "delayed" message that is divulged in fragmentary clues and never allowed to get in the way of the main purpose of the exceptional film -- to entertain suspensefully.

| May 1, 2024