...a fun, innovative premise that is, for the most part, employed to underwhelming and frequently tedious effect...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2022

The humor is juvenile and inane, the characters are unbelievable and over-the-top, and the overall temperament is childish.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 9, 2022

Monahan is at least given the chance to get her teeth into the role of the army specialist drafted in to help kick some otherworldy ass.

| Oct 4, 2021

After a spring and summer of heavy, earnest dramas, I'm ready for rampaging digits.

| Oct 4, 2021

Pixels is a likeable and unpretentious piece of summertime fun, if you can let yourself enjoy it for what it is.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2021

The movie is content to stick to the Sandler template, using the inventive premise as a frame for another of the comedian's tired romantic hook-ups.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

A flawed film that serves up just enough of a good time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

Everyone involved [including the audience] deserves a participation award.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 15, 2020

It showed a lot of restraint.

| Apr 28, 2020

It was pretty well-written and coherent.

| Apr 28, 2020

The combination of Columbus' bland, corporate filmmaking and Sandler's tone deaf performance proves particularly grating.

| Jan 10, 2020

Pixels is easy to hate for audiences going in looking for a movie with real substance. What you see is what you get with this film, no less, and definitely no more - no matter how hard it tries.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 13, 2019

The film catalogues the worst set of performances seen in a while, particularly Dinklage's accent and Gad's pubescent antics.

| Aug 15, 2019

Pixels knows it's not great, but it could have at least tried.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2019

It's not really satisfying on any level.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 23, 2019

This clumsily reanimated, effects-laden blockbuster adds up to little more than a send-up of retro gimmicks, cheesy celebrity cameos, and casual misogyny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2019

It's a head-scratcher trying to figure out the point of it all.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Mar 12, 2019

Can never quite muster the interest or ability to make us look past the inherent ridiculousness of its premise.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 22, 2019

The film [has] absolutely no heart or humor to speak of. How many times must we witness Sandler's lovable loser routine, with his shallow characterization and flat delivery of his lines?

| Feb 22, 2019

Despite a few inspired moments, and the presence of Peter Dinklage, this is your typical Sandler film that his Happy Madison production company has churned out the last 15 years or so.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 19, 2019