“Argylle” is fun in spurts with a strong cast of characters that help you get through the overly exaggerated runtime. But the script boxes itself into a corner too often and falls into repetition.

| Feb 27, 2024

Appreciating all these stars during a single visit to the movie theater is undoubtedly satisfying; but it was reasonable to expect much more from a $200 million mega-production that… is excessively conditioned by the use of CGI. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 20, 2024

Argylle ultimately buckles under the weight of its own ambition, and the end result is a messy, overlong (if entertaining) romp.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 15, 2024

Bloated and confusing...

| Feb 13, 2024

If I was Taylor Swift, and I wrote Argylle, I too would deny the whole thing.

| Feb 9, 2024

Much like The Flash, this action movie feels less fun and more like a punishment.

| Feb 7, 2024

This is the most fun a Matthew Vaughn film has been for a very long time.

| Feb 6, 2024

[Vaughn's movies] are loud, over-the-top films with style and bravado ... So even with all of the twists in Argylle, the spy action movie’s biggest surprise may be how utterly bland it is.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 5, 2024

Arg-vile.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2024

For all its generic spy movie glitz – we zip between locations in the US, London, rural France and an aircraft carrier – it has an impoverished, synthetic feel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2024

Argylle is exhausting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 4, 2024

The spy spoof Argylle is consistently clever, frequently funny and highly entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2024

The nonstop stunts are CGI heavy, but it’s jolly, ridiculous fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2024

Because Vaughn never drops his fantastical, cartoonish style, “reality” ceases to have any true meaning within the context of the film; he keeps trying to up the stakes even as what we’re watching becomes less and less consequential.

| Feb 2, 2024

When the stakes change every five minutes in a movie, that's the same thing as there being nothing at stake.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2024

Forget the rumor that Taylor Swift wrote the books this sad excuse for fun is based on. Bryce Dallas Howard is wasted as a cat lady who writes thrillers—Henry Cavill and Sam Rockwell play spies—but the whole plodding, cartoonish mess lands with a thud.

| Feb 2, 2024

A bloated movie that’s more exhausting than interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2024

A movie is like a politician: The more desperately it tries to explain itself, the less appealing it becomes. Mr. Fuchs upends the narrative so many times it becomes a kind of unpleasant mania.

| Feb 2, 2024

It’s all mindless fun -- although, at two-and-a-half hours plus, it does overestimate its entertainment value.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2024

A spy tale with plenty of twists and turns but no sense of stakes or intrigue, "Argylle" is a convoluted mess of a story in search of a purpose beyond its own self-inflated sense of style.

| Original Score: D | Feb 2, 2024