John rides a rhino into battle, fights great white apes in the arena, and leaps great distances like Superman in the early, original comic books.

| Sep 22, 2024

It’s watchable and, at times, an enjoyable film, just not wowing or immediately satisfying in the way so many of Burroughs’ readers had hoped it would be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 22, 2023

John Carter is a good summer movie in March but, with the exception of that one fleeting segment, it's not a great movie at any time of year.

| Mar 16, 2021

Feels heavily recycled in both its storytelling techniques and its visual effects.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 2, 2020

The battles mostly fail to satisfy, and the film's opening scene is either a misguided mess or simply unnecessary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

It has the all the things you want out of the big summertime release with adventure, a cool hero, an interesting love interest, and big-time effects.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2020

All together, John Carter is fun to watch and pretty to look at - just don't expect too much besides that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2019

This misunderstood and reverent spectacle was a victim of youthful ignorance more than bad marketing

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2019

...unless you're still looking forward to puberty, you should avoid John Carter.

| Jul 31, 2019

As to the best aspects of John Carter, it is first and foremost a joy to watch visually.

| Jul 29, 2019

It's the kind of movie that reminds us why we go to the movies, a kind of filmmaking that some may call naive or outdated, but I would call timeless. John Carter is the real deal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

For the most part, the first "live action" feature by Andrew Stanton, is graphically splendiferous and enjoyably nonsensical.

| Feb 25, 2019

John Carter has a sense of adventure, a sense of fun and, best of all, a sense of proportion. It's a family-friendly bet that honors its roots and its audience.

| Feb 6, 2019

An enjoyable piece of mainstream escapist cinema, its often illogical plot held together by a decent cast, some well-placed Flash Gordon-esque moments of humor and a strict mandate to never take itself too seriously.

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

This story is more original than Avatar, but lacks Avatar's elegance.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2018

While there isn't much new terrain here, what distinguishes Carter is the quality and richness of what they extract from the soil.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 4, 2018

Taylor Kitsch's nipples star in Cowboys & Aliens 2: Electric Boogaloo. On Mars. In 3-D. Yay?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 31, 2018

It's such a soul-sucking, humourless mess of technobabble and gobble-de-gook, I'm pretty sure sitting through it made me a Scientologist or something.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 6, 2018

John Carter isn't completely bad-a lot of individual elements work quite well-but it's a mess and it's so science fictiony as to be alienating.

| Oct 23, 2017

As negative-leaning as most of this article is, "John Carter" is still fun and offers occasional moments of glory.

| Sep 18, 2017