A narrative -- and much imagery, too -- that's built on much better movies.

| Jun 14, 2024

It’s like if Marvel made a whole movie with Tony Stark inside his armour just talking to Jarvis, but without any witty repartee.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

J. Lo may be fighting for the very existence of the human race, but there’s nothing at stake between you and the screen.

| Jun 7, 2024

The unimaginative direction, generic script, weakly drawn characters, iffy acting and misguided production elements are a hinderance. But even with all that dead weight, the simple act of going on a mission... provides a natural momentum.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 31, 2024

At times “Atlas” feels like pure pastiche, and it looks, in a fashion we’re getting used to seeing on the streamers, kind of cheap, dark, plasticky and fake, particularly in the big action sequences.

| May 29, 2024

Imagine two hours of Lopez trying to deadlift 1,000 pounds, and you’d have an idea of what “Atlas” is like.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 29, 2024

It’s an action film an AI could have scripted but you’d have to have a circuit loose not to get caught up in the high-octane silliness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2024

Atlas often feels like a missed opportunity, hampered by sluggish pacing and a lack of depth in character development for everyone else except the main character.

| May 25, 2024

The movie unearths nothing new in what is a very old story of man’s touch-and-go relationship with technology.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 25, 2024

While “Atlas” doesn’t top the J. Lo movie canon it’s certainly more interesting than a lot of her rom-com output.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 25, 2024

Lopez throws everything at this, but even major movie-star charisma can't make up for the recycled story elements, tired exposition and endless psycho-babble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2024

Atlas feels awfully tiny; as a romance, it treads no new emotional terrain. But there’s something oddly relatable, even romantic about its hope that healing one’s heart might be the first step in saving the world.

| May 24, 2024

Atlas more than anything wants to operate as an action movie, and director Brad Peyton keeps the story moving with a check-your-brain-at-the-door level of efficiency, relying on the shorthand of how familiar almost every beat of it feels.

| May 24, 2024

An often ridiculous sci-fi epic with dialogue cheesier than a Brie wheel but also an old-fashioned, human heart o’ gold.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 24, 2024

Without a visionary director at the helm to make better use of its simplistic concept and with no infusion of camp to match its zanier facets, Atlas is a shrug.

| Original Score: D+ | May 24, 2024

For a film that wants us to stop worrying and love big tech, Atlas does an awfully good job of showing us why we should still be wary of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2024

Atlas borrows its plot from better movies, and its murky vision of the future just looks phony.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2024

Mostly, it all looks like a video game cut scene, which isn’t just a ding on its overall aesthetics (cheap), but its general narrative thrust (weak, silly). The closer you pay attention to those elements, the harder they are to ignore.

| Original Score: D+ | May 24, 2024

“Atlas” goes off the rails amid visual designs and thematic ideas that feel borrowed from other (and better) films that came before it. And for a “our future depends on this”-type tale, its stakes never quite coalesce.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2024

A dearth of original ideas undercuts the appeal of “Atlas,” leaving Lopez to fend for herself in much the same way her character is forced to in the film’s formulaic story.

| May 24, 2024