Ender’s Game is a fun, dramatic look that is different and unique for most sci-fi movies. While it follows the basic trope of alien invasion, it quickly turns into a moral dilemma that involves some heavy and complex themes.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 15, 2024

Not having read Card’s novel, I couldn’t say whether it was truly “unfilmable,” but what ends up on the screen is indeed “filmable” in that we’ve seen these narrative threads countless times before in science fiction cinema.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2023

A joyless video game experience, complete with levels of increasing difficulty and a main character who never really faces a true conflict.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2022

It is a fairly satisfying bit of science fiction that walks the tricky line of trying to appeal to youth and adults alike. For the most part it succeeds.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The film does its best from the source novel to occupy Ender's psyche, between the jubilation of success to the hard decisions of a soldier.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2022

A solid sci-fi film in its own right.

| Original Score: B | Sep 17, 2021

Has an old school feel to it, valuing the ideas of tolerance and diversity over the flash of the effects, but doesn't quite find the balance necessary to truly succeed as a sci fi epic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

A refreshingly substantial and thought-provoking sci-fi experience.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

[It] tries so hard to be something important but never gets there. Rather, it buries itself under its own themes and ends up becoming insufferable.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 23, 2020

Like watching a classy, non-satirical Starship Troopers.

| Original Score: B | Jul 8, 2020

Ender's Game is good, old fashioned, exciting sci-fi entertainment with a message.

| Jun 30, 2020

It was entertaining and it was short.

| Apr 24, 2020

I got into it. I was excited and I liked them.

| Apr 24, 2020

There is no end to the beauty and intensity of Ender's Game. Wow!

| Jan 7, 2020

Nothing much comes of any of this really, save for Card getting another chance to cling to relevance and advance his agenda of hate. So, maybe this was a bad idea.

| Original Score: C | Aug 27, 2019

Audiences might have seen these subjects done before, but the lessons therein, the exciting action, and Butterfield's portrayal of the title character, just might make it worth seeing again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Offers enough challenging ethical material for its target audience that it should be celebrated for asking these questions in the first place.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2019

A little long, a little questionable, a little baffling, a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Ender's social maneuverings and foresightful power plays make for the best scenes in the film, and it would have been nice to have seen this interplay receive more attention and time.

| Original Score: 7.2/10 | Apr 10, 2019

Ender's Game is a visually stunning adaptation that falls short to relate the charisma and excitement of the Orson Scott Card classic science fiction novel. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 21, 2019