The wait continues for a new movie worthy of the talents of John Boyega.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2022

Not even an impending apocalypse adds much in the way of urgency. Still, Boyega is very credible and at 29 he's beginning to look like a leading man with real gravitational pull. Likely he'll file this on his CV under misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2021

Chase Palmer, the film's director and co-writer (with David Matthews), hacks away at this thick forest of high concepts and plot detail, but it all just keeps growing back, making for a tangled mess that's as irritating as a stroll through a nettle patch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2021

Even as Mexican cartels, Hasidic money-launderers, modal realism explanations and a samurai sword pile up around the action, "Naked Singularity" stubbornly refuses to engage.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 8, 2021

It's difficult to think of anything that exactly works in Naked Singularity. Even the villain muddles the message the movie wants to send.

| Aug 6, 2021

There's something off-kilter about [Naked Singularity], in a good way. It has a confidence that might not be earned but is still enjoyable to see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2021

"Naked Singularity" welds legal drama and science fiction into a misshapen crime caper.

| Aug 5, 2021

"Naked Singularity" may be set in that second world of bold choices and revolutionary acts, but it certainly wasn't made in it.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 5, 2021

A weird mashup of ill-fitting genre tropes and quarter-cooked ideas about social justice and alternate realities.

| Aug 2, 2021

The brisk pacing and capable cast still can't quite mask a certain routine feel in a movie without much heart.

| Apr 13, 2021