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

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

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

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

The film has misunderstood the appeal of its cinematic pedigree by overthinking it, melding Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands into a static blur jammed on pause.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2020

Dreamland is no masterpiece but it is a robustly made action drama...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2020

The movie sets out to make Robbie a rock star but doesn't give her a tune; it wants to say something about sex and violence but ends up tongue tied.

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

"Dreamland" needed a movie star, and it gets one in Margot Robbie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2020

Robbie does her best to keep audiences invested in the characters and the film offers a muted vision of the period and genre, but there simply isn't enough going to keep audiences moving through the molasses-slow narrative pacing and pretentious staging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2020

If nothing else, Dreamland affirms Margot Robbie's abilities both as an actress and as a movie star of the highest order.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 13, 2020

It's a lot of hooey and might have been at least tolerable if the movie had been rougher, meaner, tighter, and if the filmmakers... had never watched a Terrence Malick movie.

| Nov 12, 2020

Dreamland doesn't quite work, but [Robbie] deserves an A for effort.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2020

The new Margot Robbie vehicle "Dreamland" seems to be about legends, the price of escape, maybe unreliable narrators - but ends up not saying much about any of them.

| Nov 11, 2020

There's far more to "Dreamland" than the movie is able to wrangle over the course of its harried 98-minute runtime, and even when Allison and Eugene finally ride out to case the promised land it can feel like they're driving in circles.

| Original Score: B | May 14, 2019

A singular if somewhat slow-to-alight outlaw romance set against a Dust Bowl backdrop.

| May 13, 2019

Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's ultimately succumbs to melodramatic clichés and simplistic political demagoguery.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 3, 2019

While Dreamland doesn't entirely overcome its familiar trajectory, the film is so stunning in every other way that its narrative shortcoming hardly matters.

| Apr 29, 2019