It’s outrageously, brazenly boring stuff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Rebel Moon is a hodgepodge of roughly a dozen different sci-fi and fantasy tropes that, instead of being woven together in any sort of smart or even organic way, are just clustered together seemingly for the sake of having them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 4, 2024

This is a film so charmless, derivative, and unbearably slow in pace and spectacle that it beggars belief. It doesn’t just defy entertainment – it’s the antithesis of the word.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire is kind of a mess, but a delicious one, predicated on if you can see the potential in the universe and forthcoming longer cut or not. I see the vision.

| Jul 13, 2024

From the operatic bombast of its characters’ theatrical enunciation to the hard-rock chic aesthetic of its action set pieces, “Rebel Moon” boasts the greatest hits of its director’s stylistic flourishes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2024

The mythical climax of one of our most indelible and personal stylists, this is the film Snyder has been moving toward for decades.

| Jul 4, 2024

Rebel Moon Part One is an entertaining sci-fi film with great visuals and worldbuilding that sadly feels dragged down by the insistence of creating a PG-13 version of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Rebel Moon will find its fans. Those who are already devoted to what Snyder makes. For the rest of us, it’s yet another big budget film with lackluster writing, and lifeless visuals that leaves the viewer exhausted.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Rebel Moon does have some of Snyder’s cool visual aesthetics, but this truncated first half is undercooked, unoriginal, and worst of all, boring.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 2, 2024

Rebel Moon is a copy of a copy, dull and dreadfully boring, with nothing of its own to say.

| May 29, 2024

In addition to being an enormously boring Snyder film, it also seems to me to be a bland and predictable copy of Star Wars. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 23, 2024

Perhaps the worst aspect, and what ultimately harms the film the most, is its tremendously hurried narrative pace, laden with ellipses, likely conceived in the editing room.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 11, 2024

In the end, Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire is ridiculous, unoriginal, and stereotypical. But also? There is a lot of fun to be had, especially if someone can Jedi mindtrick you into forgetting you knew anything about Star Wars.

| Original Score: C | Feb 29, 2024

This 135-minute overlong slog is a chaotic compilation of so many better sci-fi fantasy franchises… not sure why people even compliment the visuals as it’s visually garish + ugly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2024

While watching this first Rebel Moon, you can’t help but wonder if Snyder’s specific idea was to do “Star Wars” but without any of the fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 1, 2024

An unfortunate “Star Wars” imitation.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 31, 2024

In the running for the worst movie of 2023.

| Jan 26, 2024

There's something very outdated as well in video game-inspired fight scenes and especially the macho posturing of soldiers, including attempted sexual aggressions.

| Jan 17, 2024

Despite the expected dazzling sequences from a visualist like Snyder, the subpar story and pace end up taking us to the dark side of boredom. Hopefully, the extended version and its sequel will eclipse these shortcomings. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 16, 2024

Part One fails to captivate the through its admittedly impressive visuals, as the story feels like recycled ideas that never quite come together. There is plenty of potential here, but it can’t overcome a lackluster script.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Jan 12, 2024