A funny, character-driven film and a throwback to the sci-fi films that helped shape pop culture.

| Original Score: 10 | Jun 25, 2021

McG's biggest project in a while lacks the most important thing about the 80s films it tries to emulate - the sense of opening up a secret part of the world.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Films aren't just a collection of sensation-grabbing set-pieces - they have rules to engage with your brain, and viewers need someone to connect with.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 8, 2020

A grating, painfully awful movie that seems to work against everything that makes movies of this ilk so entertaining.

| Jul 10, 2019

Rim of the World is a spectacular failure at being the kind of early teen sci-fi adventure jaunt they just don't make anymore.

| Original Score: D | Jun 18, 2019

It doesn't have great pretensions: It is raw, picaresque, and it presents extremely absurd scenes, but that work well within the convention that McG has created. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 10, 2019

For those with a soft spot for coming-of-age adventures, Rim of the World is just passable, but it's riddled with logic leaps, tonal inconsistencies and out of touch humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 30, 2019

Kids save the world from bloody aliens; language, violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2019

'Rim of the World' is a fun adventure flick filled with cool pop culture movie moments and a great story arc that makes this a movie worth adding to your Netflix queue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2019

The clockwork storyline is brazen in its adherence to formula, as if a Learning Annex seminar somehow came to life.

| May 24, 2019

Rim of the World attempts a new spin on the sci-fi adventure genre, but it fails to live up to, or set itself apart from, the movies that inspired it.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 24, 2019

Its greatest value is probably in how it could educate budding movie-lovers on cheesy and predictable storytelling, but even that seems like a lesson Rim of the World cynically teaches at an elementary level.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 24, 2019

Lame improvisations and generic young teen rebellion beats. It's definitely bright and colorful, but the movie has no sincerity.

| Original Score: D | May 24, 2019