Mad Max: Fury Road Reviews
When the relationship between Max and Furiosa changed for me, it became one of my favorite films of the year. I was moved by it.
| Aug 2, 2024
It’s not her movie. It’s not even Max’s movie. It’s both their movie, and they needed each other to thrive and be redeemed. It’s in these moments of subtlety in Miller’s direction and Tom Hardy’s performance that help emulate that...
| Aug 2, 2024
Mad Max: Fury Road is not only a terrific action film, but also one of the most awe-inspiring films ever made. With a magnificent story, cast, and visuals, that is not hard for anyone to believe once they set their sights on it
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 29, 2024
An all-action over-the-top blast from start to finish, be it the acting or action, Mad Max: Fury Road offers the briefest of quiet moments in between. Yet, it knows how to be both tender and epic. The finale is thrilling…
| May 31, 2024
Mad Max: Fury Road changed the discourse when directors returned to their landmark franchises. In fact, it etched many involved into the history of cinema.
| Original Score: 10/10 | May 24, 2024
Mad Max: Fury Road marks the franchise’s return to form thirty years after the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome misfire.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2024
... easily the most visceral and the most intelligent action film of year. Decades in the making, there's nothing else like this out there.
| Oct 6, 2023
Surpassing expectations and delivering a heaping dose of electrifying visuals, Mad Max: Fury Road is what all blockbuster action movies should strive to be.
| Aug 3, 2023
The entire movie takes place over one absolutely bonkers chase sequence. Its cinematic stats are jaw-dropping...
| Apr 19, 2023
What follows is not quite as routinely life-threatening, but it’s still incredibly physical filmmaking. $150 million, it seems, will buy you the budget to stand in the desert and sling a camera around...
| Jan 23, 2023
This is pure action cinema – a beautiful mixture of old-school style and modern movie technology.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2022
The viewer becomes swept up in the forward-moving narrative impetus, thrilled to audible gasps by Miller’s wonderfully excessive parade of stunts and effects, each more impressive and more fantastically outlandish than the last.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 21, 2022
It is the rare, beautiful film that can take even the most staunch of cinephiles and reduce them to a giddy child, flush with excitement and rooting for the heroes to win.
| Original Score: 10/10 | May 17, 2022
The definition of a wholly unapologetically action-packed film, Mad Max: Fury Road breathes new life into an old series...
| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 9, 2021
It's hard to see another movie equalling this one's grand ambition, deep ideas and awe-inspiring action.
| Original Score: A- | Aug 29, 2021
In a film with such a strong female lead, how could George Miller write such thoroughly forgettable supporting characters?... [Also] how in the hell is Zoë Kravitz the sole black person in this future earth?!
| Aug 12, 2021
Charlize Theron delivers a captivating, challenging performance as Furiosa, arguably her best since Monster.
| Aug 12, 2021
Other favorite moments include finding which men could not keep a beat in any scene with drums.
| Aug 12, 2021
Holy cow I loved this movie.
| Aug 12, 2021
I had my palm raised to the universe the second [Charlize Theron's Furiosa] took control of that big rig and led the charge across the desert.
| Aug 12, 2021