Despite having Tim Burton on board, he seems to be more of a director-for-hire almost devoid of his distinctive filmmaking style.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 10, 2024

My Homo sapiens brain was boggled by the movie's clumsiness, while my heart was chilled by the chance that otherwise mature members of my species might mistake this disjointed botch for summer entertainment.

| May 1, 2024

Wahlberg can’t obscure his incredulity at the words he’s made to speak or the sheer silliness of the whole thing. Without latex and a full-bodied shag there’s no hiding from this film.

| May 1, 2024

While it's fun to revisit this nearly forgotten planet in the company of a master of movie magic, one gets the feeling that Burton never found a way to embrace this place and make it his own.

| May 1, 2024

Largely listless and witless, this extensive reworking of the 1968 sci-fi favorite simply isn’t very exciting or imaginative; most surprisingly, given the material, it’s also Burton’s most conventional and literal-minded film.

| May 1, 2024

It's a toy-store attraction, with an impressive line of lifelike primates, and though these hirsute creatures think and talk, they don't think or talk about much of importance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2024

Like the original, the new film is fun mainly for its terrific ape makeup, razor-sharp ironies, tricky plotting and action, action, action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2024

Not a remake but a jumbled revision that tumbles out as if from a piñata.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2024

Exactly what this mediocre summer movie season needs. Something fresher than dinosaurs and edgier than talking pets and cartoons. Something familiar enough to make us buy tickets, yet original enough to feel the money was well-spent.

| Original Score: B+ | May 1, 2024

All summer blockbusters should be this clever and exciting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2024

Alas, no Burton movie contains less of his personality or style than Planet of the Apes, a high-concept action film in which the real artist is the six-time Oscar winner Rick Baker.

| May 1, 2024

Despite an undercooked script and the relative weakness of the main character, the movie delivers all the action and imagination you could ask from a summer blockbuster.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2024

Planet of the Apes is a dumb movie disguised as a smart one, a two-toned misfire that's as striking as it is silly and leaden as it is campy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2024

Knit together by Burton's frequently warped sense of humor and the creative looping of old and new, Planet of the Apes is more of a happening than a rehash.

| Original Score: B+ | May 1, 2024

Despite its narrative inanities, it brings into the cinema a strong and unwelcome stench of racism. It is an imperialist allegory that sides with the white colonisers.

| May 1, 2024

Run-of-the-mill summer multiplex fodder -- quite a disappointment from a director who has brought some of the more peculiar and interesting Hollywood movies to the screen in recent years.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2024

The new Planet of the Apes brings fresh resonance to familiar themes. More important, it rates as the most entertaining live-action offering in a summer full of disappointments.

| Original Score: B+ | May 1, 2024

In keeping with the anti-Darwinian premise, it is a hilarious regression from the original, a lower order of being.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 1, 2024

The movie is a curious bird -- a piece of self-hating kitsch. As in his 1996 comedy Mars Attacks!, Burton seems vaguely irritated by the prospect of having to deliver a mainstream pop blockbuster. So his strategy is to detach himself from the material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Anyone expecting director Tim Burton's trademark visionary otherworldliness will be disappointed by the standard action fare of this big-budget remake.

| Apr 30, 2024