If anyone needs proof of the "Oscar curse", here's Exhibit A.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 8, 2022

It's also near impossible to enjoy this movie without visions of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones dancing through your head.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Seventh Son is a pretty by-the-book fantasy tale. The young apprentice storyline is a common one, so there aren't a lot of surprises when it comes to the plot. For me...it depends on the execution, and this is where I think the movie succeeds...mostly

| Jul 14, 2020

Fantasy with very little imagination.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 6, 2020

It's too often a chore to make out Seventh's beautiful countryside and cast members through the frequent eye rolls that some truly terrible dialogue and a limp love story induces.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2019

It's overly theatrical, like a stage production of a Shakespeare play, but that type of vivacious, physical acting doesn't translate well to the screen. It feels distractingly amateurish, even making it difficult to focus on the story at all.

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

About as pedestrian as a fantasy film can come, with the script full of the obligatory check marks and Sergei Bodrev's direction about as flat and uninteresting as possible.

| Original Score: D | Jan 24, 2019

This question of morality is a perfectly fine basis for a film, fantasy or otherwise, but Seventh Son doesn't know what to do with it.

| Original Score: C | Dec 20, 2018

The mundane medieval movie Seventh Son is indicative of the cinema wasteland. Bridges's gray-haired evil-bashing spook and Moore's wicked witch may very well deserve to have their SAG cards revoked...[a] faceless fantasy of hocus-pocus.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 10, 2018

The Super Bowl commercial of Jeff Bridges creepily humming in a bedroom was more entertaining than watching this

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2017

You've simply never seen such flat-out bad acting from Jeff Bridges. It almost feels like a dare: 'Let me just see how bad I can be, without anyone calling me on it.'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2016

Even best actress Oscar winners can have a bad day at the office, and this is one of those for Julianne Moore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2016

At first you won't quite believe you can make it through such hokey dialogue and daft clichs, but it's not long before it turns into something rather enjoyable. Fun - but leave your brain at home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2015

The key to enjoying Seventh Son is to keep modest expectations. And, in this case, "modest expectations" probably means you're better off saving your first-run dollars and waiting for cheaper options.

| Nov 5, 2015

A fantasy adventure film needs more than "cool creatures," a rousing score, and two certifiably over-the-top performances to make a lasting impression.

| Aug 23, 2015

The sets look like budget Lord of the Rings and the script isn't really much to write home about.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 1, 2015

The film is basically a rich man's Uwe Boll version of Dungeons and Dragons -- a lot of tacky visuals, world-building mumbo-jumbo and gooey CGI creatures encased in a narrative vacuum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2015

Seventh Son wraps itself in a bland colored shroud of clichs, making you find reality much more interesting than fiction.

| Original Score: 1/10 | May 29, 2015

It's difficult to comprehend quite why this stellar cast all signed up to this distinctively lacklustre project.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 2, 2015

You have to admire a movie which takes a gold-star cast (Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander) and creates such an unpolishable turd.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 29, 2015