Maggie Reviews
Maggie could have been a rare treat... Instead, what we get is a genuinely new take that winds up feeling, somehow, like the same old stuff we've seen a million times before.
| Jun 14, 2017
It's a serious, heartfelt, dramatic turn, and he totally nails it. I'm as surprised as you are.
| May 28, 2016
Breslin is affecting as the ordinary young woman beneath the festering flesh, while Arnie shows a delicacy you'd never have suspected, at least not from his current 온라인카지노추천 ads with meerkats.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2015
A missed opportunity.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2015
A quietly melancholic study of a father-daughter relationship playing out under the shadow of her terminal disease.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2015
It feels a little like 'a very special episode of The Walking Dead' and might be a tad low-key for its field, but Schwarzenegger and Breslin are good and the payoff is affecting.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2015
The film ladles on the melancholy so thickly that there's no space for you to feel it for yourself.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2015
One interminably boring and mawkish film, overlaid with YA-dystopian self-pity.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 23, 2015
Most of Maggie is so dark you can barely make out the zombies or the humans. It also moves more slowly than the ghouls.
| May 8, 2015
I feel some guilt in giving a film that tries this hard a negative review. But I couldn't shake my sense of aggravation at how it all plays out, especially in Schwarzenegger's case.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2015
Ultimately, neither the brain-eating genre or the heart-breaking one is enhanced by this mash-up. Like Celine Dion's cover of AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long, file it under the category of "interesting-but-why?"
| May 8, 2015
The problem, aside from not much going on, is that Schwarzenegger remains a severely limited actor, so there's not that much character to study. Potentially interesting concept; wrong star.
| Original Score: C | May 8, 2015
Its creepy atmosphere aside, "Maggie" is a slog of the living dead.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 8, 2015
It's a sad story, or would be if the zombie apocalypse backdrop - and the inky splotches creeping across Maggie's body - didn't wreak such havoc with the movie's unsmiling sincerity.
| May 7, 2015
The plot is lean, the dialogue is spare and there are some intriguing stabs at intellectual and emotional terrain. But the pacing is deadly, so slow there might be time for a catnap or two without missing anything important.
| May 7, 2015
The performances in Maggie are strong. The camera is often right up in the characters' faces, putting Schwarzenegger's lived-in, world-weary mug to good use and telegraphing Breslin's vulnerability.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2015
An art film. About zombies. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 7, 2015
The sight of Schwarzenegger in this small, subdued role makes us root for his survival. That's the power of star wattage at work. Not even the undead can kill it.
| Original Score: B- | May 7, 2015
Casting Schwarzenegger is such an eyebrow-raising choice that the film seemed destined to be something different. So the fact that it emerges as a sleepy, half-formed thing is disappointing ...
| May 7, 2015
If only freshman director Henry Hobson was even more committed to his intriguing strategy for showcasing his unlikely star, and kept things quiet throughout.
| May 7, 2015