Ready Player One is perfectly entertaining and enticing, but the sum of its parts ends up significantly less realized than its full potential.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 24, 2024

While the first half of [Ready Player One] is all trivia is the superior form of geekdom and awkward geekboy somehow managing to get the geekgirl interested the second half shows how you can form real communities online.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 21, 2023

Steven Spielberg delivers the ultimate expression of why we digest media, and possibly a glimpse into a world we could all be heading towards.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2022

With Ready Player One, you can feel director Steven Spielberg pushing to reclaim his status as Hollywood's crowned head of spectacle as he pours his considerable talent into another memorable science-fiction fantasy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2022

What Ready Player One does through its story is never quite as interesting as what it means, but its a Spielberg science-fiction pop culture souffle...

| Feb 11, 2022

An ugly FX monstrosity that misunderstands the misguided message of the book & fails to address its antiquated notions of race, gender and capitalism. Abysmal fan service from Spielberg, who should be able to shoot and edit a climax better than this

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 17, 2021

A heckin fun movie, full of stunning action sequences and laughs and winks at the kids who grew up watching Back to the Future and Jurassic Park and E.T. and Indiana Jones.

| Aug 27, 2021

Steven Spielberg has basically made the best possible version of this material with the serviceable-at-best script he was given.

| Original Score: B | Aug 21, 2021

If you go to the movies to watch big blockbusters with big explosions and effects, or to just have an enjoyable time with family and friends, then this is the movie for you.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Aug 14, 2021

It's not nostalgia so much as a hyperactive computer algorithm.

| Jul 20, 2021

The setting of the film allows for some truly spectacular action set pieces and these are the strongest parts of the film

| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jun 24, 2021

It's a film to watch and enjoy once, but probably not to return to again and again, like Spielberg's best. It's fixated on easter eggs and it's like an easter egg itself: shiny and pretty, inducing a brief sugar high, but ultimately hollow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Pure escapism that begs the question, Will there ever be a video game movie that really works?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

While the video game preoccupation is adequately and thoroughly visualized, the real world has plenty of missing details.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

A kid at heart until his end, Spielberg's renegade sensibilities turns Ready Player One into a true treasure.

| Nov 10, 2020

The film asks the viewer to find their purpose in life, like Wade has, so there isn't always this instant urge to run off to a different reality as found in video games, movies, or television.

| Nov 4, 2020

While Ready Player One is an entertaining thrill ride, its storytelling still feels rather empty.

| Oct 9, 2020

Most filmmakers fail miserably when trying to meld together both real and fantasy worlds, yet this is truly where Spielberg reminds us of his extraordinary talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Even the most hardened of cynics can appreciate the take-away message: it's important to live in reality because it's the only thing that's real and the only place you can get a decent meal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2020

Ready Player One won't be remembered as Spielberg's worst film but it's not his best either. It's a purgatory state of a film that understands the appeal of the book but fails to convey those aspects in a satisfactory manner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2020