It's a shame that its poor editing inhibits what could have been a memorable movie.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017

Here's the trouble with mainstream science fiction filmmaking these days: there's no expectation that an audience is capable of putting things together or waiting for a payoff.

| Jun 21, 2016

The story that eventually surfaces is no where near as interesting as the mesmerizing look of the film.

| Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2015

As a piece of narrative, though, it's portentous, sluggish and fatally ungripping.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2013

It takes more than an hour for Oblivion to become whatever it is the filmmakers think it's supposed to be.

| Dec 31, 2013

In space, Jack hopes, someone may hear you dream. But in a movie theater, no one will see you yawn.

| Dec 31, 2013

Large-scale, original sci-fi is a hard thing to come by these days, and despite its familiar story Oblivion does dream up some great ideas

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2013

Feels ever more grounded and stuck ...

Full Review | Apr 29, 2013

Ultimately, Oblivion is aptly named - no other movie so far this year has been so instantly forgettable.

| Apr 23, 2013

Was Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever?

| Apr 22, 2013

If nothing else, "Oblivion" will go down in film history as the movie where Tom Cruise pilots a white, sperm-shaped craft into a giant space uterus.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2013

Glossy, derivative, ambitious and fatally underpowered.

| Apr 19, 2013

The story eventually devolves into a grab bag of sci-fi tropes but, as with so many other Cruise productions, the sheer scale of everything is so mind-numbing that you may not notice.

| Apr 19, 2013

The sly, surprising and visually magnificent Tom Cruise vehicle that has forced me - and many other people, I suspect - to revise my first opinion of director Joseph Kosinski.

| Apr 19, 2013

Oblivion is an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 19, 2013

Kosinski offers plenty of action here, and he lets the plot reveals bleed out slowly (explanations keep coming right to the end). Yes, a great deal is derivative, but it's fast-moving derivative.

| Original Score: B | Apr 19, 2013

Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 18, 2013

More adventurous than your typical Hollywood tent pole, "Oblivion" makes you remember why science fiction movies pulled you in way back when and didn't let you go.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2013

If you're able to forgive and forget, Oblivion isn't a bad place to start loving Tom Cruise all over again.

| Apr 18, 2013

Director Joseph Kosinski focuses on cool visuals but stints on a compelling plot. It's a dazzler, but the story lacks the impact of the futuristic look.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 18, 2013