This does not really justify itself beyond being full of new actors.

| Sep 16, 2024

Lots of movies are “bad” but still interesting but earnest-to-a-fault The Crow is not that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2024

Whether anyone involved with this new Crow genuinely wanted to tell this story is something I’m unable to judge. But even if the film is a purely cynical cash-grab, idealised love and rage against authority aren’t the worst products to be selling.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2024

While it’s bloodsoaked and features passable attempts at cool action scenes, the heart of the film is always Eric and Shelly’s love. And despite all the things working against this unasked-for reboot of a beloved cult film, that love makes it work.

| Aug 29, 2024

[I]t has a low-key confidence about its identity and methods, including an entire metaphysical system supporting the plot, that’s unexpectedly persuasive by the end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2024

Despite some fruitful tweaks (like devoting more time to the doomed romance The Crow is avenging), it’s not different enough to compensate for the ways it fails to match the splashy, moody dumb fun of what came before it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 26, 2024

A turkey in crow’s clothing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 26, 2024

This reinvention’s contrastingly elegant yet dislocated revenge-slash-love story is no slam dunk. But neither is it an unwatchable dud.

| Aug 23, 2024

An improved redo of the 1994 cult favorite.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2024

It’s like an anti-entertainment protest.

| Aug 23, 2024

But ultimately what this version, directed by Rupert Sanders, is spiritually derived from is neither the film nor the comic, but rather the flattened popular image that the film produced — a Hot Topic-style version of alternative consciousness.

| Aug 23, 2024

The results are bleak, unimaginative, and—despite the presence of a couple of bona fide Good Actors—tiresome to watch. It’s a film that can’t help but remind you of the original, if only because you’ll be longing to rewatch that movie instead.

| Original Score: D | Aug 23, 2024

Instead of a bold new vision, The Crow offers a confusing, uninteresting sleepwalk through a disjointed dream of a comic book movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 23, 2024

When you stifle the emotional simplicity of a story like The Crow to emphasize the plot, the plot had better make sense. And it doesn’t. It’s got perplexing rules and a vague chronology and nothing seems like it matters anymore.

| Aug 23, 2024

Ugly, incoherent, and ultimately cynical, The Crow evokes the words of wisdom from another horror movie about resurrected corpses on a rampage: Sometimes dead is better.

| Aug 23, 2024

Most notable for excessively straining for R-rated credibility at every turn.

| Aug 22, 2024

The original Crow is by no means a perfect film -- its dialogue is often corny, its sentimentality heavy-handed -- and I don’t believe the comics are so sacred that they can never be adapted again. But Sanders’s vision is just dull.

| Aug 22, 2024

The Crow is not a waste of talent or resources; worse, it just hangs there on the screen, as undead as Eric himself.

| Original Score: C | Aug 22, 2024

Brandon Lee’s original was hard to shake because of his untimely demise. This forgettable new version doesn’t just fail to honour his memory -- it never justifies its existence on its own merits.

| Aug 22, 2024

The Crow isn’t bad -- and it gets better as it goes -- but it’s an exercise in folly. It cannot escape Lee and the 1994 original even as it builds a more allegorical scaffolding for the smartphone generation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2024