Equals boasts] stunning cinematography, futuristic effects, and an impossibly controlled narrative.

| Original Score: B | Mar 21, 2017

You admire the look and the performances, and some interesting ideas are presented, but everything feels muted and predictable and lacking in spark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2016

As stiff and rigid as two equals signs, "Equals" is a bland sci-fi romance that is as dull as its scrubbed-clean visual aesthetic.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 22, 2016

The DVD box should warn prospective buyers that its contents could cause drowsiness.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 21, 2016

Doremus and screenwriter Nathan Parker ... borrow from "Romeo and Juliet," "1984" and every sci-fi flick ever made about a society that suppresses feelings. The movie's futurism is nothing new.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2016

The final resolution of the plot is actually rather intriguing, but the journey to it is so slow and predictable that most moviegoers will have long since lost interest.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2016

Everything is antiseptic white, from the Brave New World wardrobe to the sleek, boutique-style architecture. It all feels like living in an iPhone, surrounded by people who are not much more engaging than Siri.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2016

Imagining a society drained of emotions, Drake Doremus might just have taken it too far and erased any authentic feelings from his film.

| Jul 15, 2016

This is a heartfelt film, often brilliantly directed, but quite thin in terms of vision.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 15, 2016

By the time it reaches its abrupt ending, the only emotion audiences might be left with is boredom.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2016

This is a visually interesting meditation on human emotion, and it's too bad there isn't quite enough story to go around.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2016

A dystopian sci-fi snooze that suffers from imagination deficit disorder.

| Jul 14, 2016

Doremus can't quite make the emotional breakthroughs rewarding enough to justify the slow buildup, but the icy beauty of the film makes it worth watching.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Its own conceit works stubbornly against it: When two would-be lovers are required to behave like automatons every waking moment, it's not easy to stop being boring when no one is looking.

| Jul 14, 2016

"Equals" walls itself off from the suspense implicit in its scenario - it's practically an anti-thriller - and barely flickers to life as a tale of forbidden desire.

| Jul 14, 2016

Equals could be Kristen Stewart's least persuasive performance to date -- and remember, she's played a soldier at Guantanamo and a girl who dates a vampire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2016

It's all a little slow and stoic and familiar, but we thaw whenever Hoult scoops Stewart into his arms for a puppyish hug.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 14, 2016

We've been down this cinematic road before and Equals doesn't offer anything particularly new or edifying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Fanciful? Sure. Familiar? You bet. But Stewart and Hoult are both quietly devastating. Doremus is onto something about possibility in a future world gone cold from insisting that things can't change.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Stewart's twitchiness and utter sincerity both come in handy here, as she and Hoult generate a youthful electricity.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2016