Organizing the chaos of the wasteland’s warring gangs around the exploitation of water and gas and bullets, Miller gives us an easy-to-read allegory about the inevitable destruction brought on by capitalism that is unchecked by conscience.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 7, 2025

Impressive in certain areas and overabundant in others, it takes an intriguing premise and hits the snooze button. Action scenes dazzle and there's some climactic tension near the end, but all in all a movie that promised more than it delivered.

| Dec 29, 2024

Miller's world-building is more interested in micro-aggressions that ultimately exhaust, and more importantly, do not land the claim Furiosa makes in the ultimate face-off with Dementus.

| Dec 19, 2024

The siege on a custom big rig is one of the most thrilling sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 18, 2024

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is beautiful madness and pure cinematic bliss—epic storytelling packed with fiery mayhem and so much more.

| Nov 11, 2024

George Miller re-visits his oil-soaked franchise with another brutal, female-dominated action film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Furiosa's pleasures are difficult to resist. The larger scope yields some striking, poetic moments, as well as skillfully staged setpieces that bring to mind John Ford and Sergio Leone.

| Sep 16, 2024

George Miller defies all expectations with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a prequel that cements itself as a crucial piece of the Mad Max mythos. It’s hard to think of another modern prequel that significantly compliments its predecessor like this one does.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Takes a while, a long while actually to get going. Once it does, this prequel is a worthy addition to the Mad Max franchise.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 1, 2024

Furiosa is a very elaborate revenge melodrama. But it’s done with such visual and, surprisingly, verbal aplomb that I could happily watch it again.

| Original Score: B | Aug 28, 2024

[Its] weaknesses [...] are mostly of the thespian kind, as the acrobatics of the mise-en-scène are as diabolically fascinating as ever, and hardly skip a beat in the red dust of the post-Australian Wasteland.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2024

Furiosa isn’t as narratively stripped down as Fury Road -- it’s not a bad origin story, just one whose revenge ‘n’ retribution themes are rather expected.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2024

One of the main ways that Furiosa is an unpredictable zig-zag for the Mad Max series is that it's actually much closer to a direct evolution from Miller's last film, 2022's Three Thousand Years of Longing.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Furiosa may provide a better balance between the narrative/characters & the phenomenal action sequences we've come to expect from the series, but unfortunately the story that Miller attempts to tell is surprisingly slow and largely uneventful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2024

Part origin story, part mythology, "Furiosa" is an epic poem as trial upon trial tests the resolve of a young survivor across time in a quest to go home.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 12, 2024

There’s a lot to enjoy here despite the underwhelming central character or that, other than the great opening chase, Furiosa leaves us feeling we’ve seen much of this before.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2024

“Furiosa” backs up, fills in the blanks and does a solid job of giving its title character a history that answers questions that its predecessor left in the dust.

| Aug 8, 2024

As he did in Fury Road, Miller does a grand job of building this desolate, lawless world while wisely pushing the mechanics and politics far into the background, simply letting the chaos speak for itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2024

It is more ambitious [than Fury Road] in narrative and dramatic terms, more unleashed visually, and deeper emotionally, but less visceral and relentless in its conception of action and its language.

| Aug 1, 2024

Miller says he storyboarded Furiosa before a single frame of Fury Road was filmed. That's hard to reconcile with FR's whiplash pacing and the former's languid running time. Furiosa is the longest Mad Max movie by a good 30 minutes, and didn't need to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2024