The Lost City Reviews
For a certain kind of mood, one filled with patience, forgiveness and the need to pass a few hours of time, The Lost City might almost be what the doctor ordered.
| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Oct 10, 2023
The Lost City is the perfect palate cleanser for those who are looking for a fresh twist on the comedy genre.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 26, 2023
Laughing, smiling, & losing my shit! Hands down one of the best comedies I’ve seen in awhile. I need more Channing Tatum & Sandra Bullock now! + Brad Pitt was amazing! This is the perfect Adventure film for all!
| Jul 25, 2023
Despite billing itself as a return to the entertaining adventure-romance movies of the ’80s (it’s impossible not to think of Romancing the Stone), The Lost City was afraid to lose itself in eccentricity.
| Jul 25, 2023
The Lost City is one of this year's surprises, managing to vary the well-known formulas of the genre in a creative, fun manner (...) a thematically rich ending compensates for any cliches. Definitely, a family viewing party recommendation.
| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2023
The Lost City is every bit the romantic adventure we didn’t know we needed and then some. It’s fun and hilarious, and its on-the-nose praise of the romance genre is something we’ll never tire of exploring.
| Jul 23, 2023
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum get blindsided by a wonky and aimless script better suited for the balls-to-the-wall performances of its side characters.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2023
Sandra Bullock’s return to light-hearted comedy is welcome. While not to be taken too seriously the film does throw in a few heartfelt moments.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2023
Ultimately, the The Lost City is relatively hollow with a somewhat uncharacteristic denouement that connects back to Bullock’s late husband and her inability to let him go.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 25, 2022
...the breezy chemistry with Sandra Bullock renders this a painless hijinx...
| Dec 22, 2022
The Lost City is at its best when it is light and silly, smoothing over some of the rougher edges where its jokes don't always land.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2022
The Lost City is a terrific throwback to studio romcoms of the 90s and 00s, with two true-blue movie star performances from Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022
A story about the vicarious pleasures of romance fiction, and about the folly of either dismissing them as stupid or of taking them too seriously … The obviousness of the genre machinery isn’t really a flaw – it’s part of the fun.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2022
[Channing Tatum's] energetic and eager to please — virtues he shares with the film.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022
The sort of bubbly, unchallenging studio plaything that some of us may receive gratefully in these harrowed times.
| Original Score: B- | Aug 24, 2022
Bullock is a solid anchor, Radcliffe gets a couple of humorous lines, and Tatum does his best. But it’s Pitt who steals the show. So much so that the drop-off is pretty significant whenever he’s not on screen.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022
A word comes to mind that isn’t often used when describing movies lately. Thinking, thinking … oh, right! The word is “fun.” “The Lost City” is fun.
| Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2022
An unofficial remake of 'Romancing the Stone' with a big movie star cameo. Dull, obvious and very familiar with a script that just pokes along.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2022
There are five writers sharing screenplay credit, but for me the writing of Bullock's character was the weakest element.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2022
The breezy pace is appreciated, but in two years, viewers won't recall any discernible differences between this, Uncharted, and Jungle Cruise.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2022