It’s Harrison Ford’s final crack at playing Indiana Jones – and his fifth time out as the great adventuring archaeologist is much more than a fond farewell

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2025

The film from beginning to end is a lot of fun... Harrison Ford, even at his age, looked pretty decent and brought his A-game. If you enjoy adventure films and want to have fun, this one doesn’t disappoint.

| Original Score: B | Nov 19, 2024

The film may focus on Indiana feeling out of place in the modern world, yet The Dial of Destiny avoids becoming a cynical finger-wagging at everything wrong with the world today.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 26, 2024

It may have seemed like a questionable decision to continue the franchise after so many years, but this loving coda is surprisingly poignant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

People who love this series, and even those who don't, will find all two and a half hours to be enjoyable and often elegant.

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

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny is made with nostalgia at its core and embraces the pulpy silliness of the whole franchise. Its main strength is to remind people that Indiana Jones, for all that silliness, did love and respect what he was doing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2024

James Mangold struggles to stamp his mark on The Dial of Destiny, resulting in a bland, forgettable affair that is lacking both the adventure and cinematic magic so synonymous with many of Indy’s previous adventures.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Dial of Destiny maintains an appreciative understanding of its protagonist and legacy while comfortably being its own thing in scale, stakes and excitement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2024

For what was promised to be one last adventure, the stakes never reach full potential in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and emotions don’t run as high as needed to elevate the sentiment that this film is eagerly attempting to tap into.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2024

There’s a very distinct lack of Spielberg magic, but Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a decently entertaining “greatest hits” adventure.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 12, 2024

Replete with exoticism, Orientalism, and a nonsense science fiction plotline, Dial of Destiny proves the case for why this entire franchise belongs in a museum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2024

“Dial of Destiny” is just Indy being Indy and nobody does it better than Ford.

| Original Score: B | Jul 7, 2024

ugly, prosaic and dull DIAL OF DESTINY..panders to an audience willing to be spoon-fed lines that they once recognised and moves as gracefully as its geriatric lead

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2024

From a thrilling opening act, where Indy takes on a Nazi loot train, to a wild and wacky chase through Tangiers, Dial of Destiny proves the old grave robber can still deliver the goods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Post-2016, Indy’s renown disgust over Nazis feels urgent and relevant, and the film does a subtle job of condemning the US for embracing and elevating Nazis over its now obsolete and forgotten heroes, WWII veterans and anyone who resisted the Nazis.

| May 25, 2024

Far too long, but a somewhat fun time at the movies

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 24, 2024

But "better than Crystal Skull" is a miserably low bar to clear. Dial's plot is surprisingly dumb, considering it took four screenwriters (including David Koepp and director James Mangold) to write it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 25, 2024

I think you can find fun here. I think you can find good here. It's just not going to turn you around if you come in thinking it's a bad idea.

| Jan 12, 2024

Dial of Destiny is a fun ride, especially for moviegoers like me who just want to enjoy some nostalgia as we contemplate a retirement full of watching all those films we’ve collected over the years.

| Dec 30, 2023

There's a lot that's fun here... but the more you look at the CG, the more it looks like The Polar Express.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 27, 2023