A-X-L had me bored almost all the way through

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2022

A.X.L. feels hollow, and the robotic canine star can't sell enough emotion through its metallic shell.

| Original Score: 2. 5 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

A silly but enjoyable movie that would have felt right at home in the VHS era.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 20, 2019

A.X.L. is a sloppy, derivative outing, devoid of originality and uninterested in making any real effort.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 6, 2019

It is cliché over innovation every time with A.X.L.

| Nov 27, 2018

Intriguing sci-fi thriller that explores what can happen when robots become smarter than humans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 13, 2018

When all is said and done, you're left with the nagging question: why didn't they just re-release "Monster Truck" instead?

| Original Score: D | Sep 17, 2018

A.X.L. is let down by a script that's good on science yet bad on characters and story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 17, 2018

After 2016's Monster Trucks laid a giant goose egg at the box office, what made the folks at Global Road think this similarly themed shaggy mechanical pal tale would fare any better?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2018

Didn't anyone notice that the story made no sense, that it was just remnants of Short Circuit, E.T., WarGames and other better movies, strung together more or less at random?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 30, 2018

I could keep going on about just how bizarrely off kilter A.X.L. is, but it's one of those things that you'll either want to steer clear of forever or just experience it for yourself.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Aug 30, 2018

Like its titular character, A.X.L is a pastiche of familiar parts constructed in a lab, a blend of science-fiction and extreme sports tropes that result in little more than an audition reel for the film's young stars.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018

It doesn't offer anything new or exciting and it doesn't need to be in a theater. It's just there. You can watch much better family films at home.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Pro-STEM twist in often-violent sci-fi boy-and-"dog" tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

A wholesome boy-and-his-dog adventure and an inoffensive PG trifle.... Meets the basic narrative requirements.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 27, 2018

It's utterly forgettable.

| Original Score: D | Aug 25, 2018

It's a boy and his dog story with elements of "Pretty in Pink," "Rad" and "The Wraith," and it's those references that kinda make this movie work.

| Aug 25, 2018

A.X.L. feels in desperate need of repairs.

| Aug 24, 2018

Meanwhile, the scientists who lost A-X-L spend half the movie watching these events unfold on a computer screen, doing not a danged thing because they want to see how it all pans out. They are, it must be said, lousy scientists.

| Aug 24, 2018

By the time he develops rabies and has to be put down out back behind the shed (sorry, wrong boy and his dog story, but you get the point), we simply don't care. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, etc. - also Available)

| Aug 24, 2018