It is a finely acted, beautifully shot film that ultimately rings a little hollow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

A screenplay with more zest to it or a twist in the tale would have made a difference.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Margot Robbie puts Dreamland on her back and makes something from very little. While this confirms her as a star you can rely on, there are better uses for her talents than this undercooked chase movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2022

Dreamland concludes with a running off into the great, unknown expanse of fiction; more important, sometimes, than any of the facts.

| Jun 5, 2021

Margot Robbie and Finn Cole have electric chemistry, however, "Dreamland" is missing some luster.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 3, 2021

The stylized direction along with Cole's and Robbie's performances make this worthwhile, but the screenplay needed to flesh out the attraction between the two leads.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2021

Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's film contains familiar tropes from such outlaw classics as Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands, but Dreamland flips the notion on its head by having the female as the chief manipulator.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2021

Another classic case of an actor being far better than the material she's been given.

| Jun 3, 2021

The squared-off framing and lateral tracking shots suggest a study of modern film school favorites like Wes Anderson and Bong Joon-ho. While all this might be taken to signal a facetious distance from the material, irony and cynicism are curiously absent.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2021

It's fascinating to watch an actor like Robbie, who so consciously uses beauty as a tool to define the way her characters drift through the world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2021

Even Margot Robbie's ability to lift a movie has its limits, which Dreamland tests.

| Mar 9, 2021

While Nicholaas Zwart's screenplay isn't completely up to par with the film's visuals and performances, Dreamland is an impressive film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 1, 2021

Without Robbie, Dreamland would be relatively forgettable, but with her - as with so much of her work - this otherwise milquetoast film becomes something if not memorable exactly, then certainly very enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Composer Patrick Higgins' dissonant soundtrack also won't be for everyone, but as Dreamland builds towards its predictable finale, the visuals and Robbie ensure it's a ride that's never dull.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 22, 2020

It's not clear if this wants to be a coming-of-age movie, a love story or a traditional outlaw tale with a twist. Less Dreamland, more snoozefest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2020

The cinematography of this film is certainly its strongest point. More than ably bringing to life the dusty milieu of this part of Texas during the 1930s, the expanse of the vistas as well as Margot Robbie's blue eyes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2020

Its script fails to engage as much as it should, leaving what could have been a sweeping affair more an average fling that leaves little impression

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 19, 2020

Margot Robbie (the actor) is the best thing in this but I'm not sure it's a project that Margot Robbie (the producer) should have green lit in the first place.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 15, 2020

The pair's attempted escape to Mexico is a routine tale, and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's film adds pretentious narration...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2020

Eugene and Allison eventually bond, snog and hit the road for a climactic rampage, but it's too little too late in a movie that has countless artful frames and not a moment of authenticity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2020