[Jodie Foster's] crabbed, jittery performance that holds the film together.

| Mar 13, 2020

I thought it was fairly disposable. It's not something that's going to linger in the mind long after you've watched it. But whilst I was watching it, I thought it was fun.

| Aug 27, 2018

Hotel Artemis feels like a rough folly that's been trimmed down to the bare bones by a disappointed studio. It feels like a spin-off from an imaginary larger franchise. It feels like an adaptation of a cult comic you're never going to read.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2018

Pearce is trying to appeal to Foster fanatics and hardcore action buffs. Sadly for him, he lacks the kind of weapons that would impress either crowd.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2018

The plot is incidental; what matters here is the action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2018

The whole thing is painfully derivative (very John Wick), populated by two-dimensional ciphers...and drowned in overfamiliar "comic-book noir" style.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2018

Nonetheless, the energy levels don't flag and the always classy Foster almost manages to convince us that her lost little old lady character is, in fact, a full-blown tragic heroine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2018

Boutella's role is overfamiliar from her Atomic Blonde and Kingsman bad-assery, and Day is a bit much, but everyone else knuckles down to what they're doing with much more thought than you usually get from such gimcracky genre fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2018

They should have called it "Hoodlum Hospital". Quentin Tarantino would have.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2018

There's still something charming about Hotel Artemis, despite its many, many flaws.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2018

Pearce has imbibed the spirit of The Killing or Reservoir Dogs with something of John Wick and the futurist alienation of Blade Runner or RoboCop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2018

Brave and ballsy, this film is unafraid to place intriguing ideas at the forefront of its narrative, and, though the screenplay sometimes obfuscates the outcome, Hotel Artemis is well worth checking in to check out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2018

Stylishly realised against a backdrop of violence and faded Hollywood glamour, Drew Pearce's vision of the near-future is laced with intrigue and dark humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

It's unfortunately anticlimactic; what at first looks like a potential cult classic becomes a movie you might catch on basic cable in a year. Still, there are worse fates.

| Jun 18, 2018

Maybe there is potential for more from this universe in the future, but for now, this 3-star hotel is in need of a serious renovation.

| Original Score: C | Jun 14, 2018

Hotel Artemis, despite a kind of shrug of a plot, has character - and characters - to spare, and though much of it is an affectation, it's too fun write it all off as "steampunk."

| Jun 13, 2018

I like the idea of this, I like the look of this...It's kind of superficial, and I don't know [if] there's a whole lot of depth to whatever allegory this is intended to be. It's just an exercise in style, and that's cool.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 11, 2018

It just kind of fizzles out where nothing really happens...not only is it a film that doesn't quite meet its ambitions, it sometimes just puts its characters where they need to be without explaining how they arrived there.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 11, 2018

Foster is wonderful, her chemistry with Bautista having a surprising emotional oomph I wasn't expecting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2018

Positive points for trying to achieve something original, and for the quality of the cast. But after that bloody boldness, the analogies and the life lessons and the moments of closure are all too predictable and familiar.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2018