A sophisticated, compelling addition to the series.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

"A movie that is in direct conversation with itself and what came before, and while the routes it takes to get there are sledgehammer blunt at times, the points it raises are wild."

| Mar 19, 2022

So inside itself that it doesnt exhibit any actual interest in humanity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 10, 2022

None of the head-spinning revelations of the first...here's the thing: The Matrix really is a standalone film.

| Jan 19, 2022

A personal vision writ extremely large, with a still-singular graphic splendor and juicy themes of identity, consent, and the limits of conspiratorial thinking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2022

I enjoyed thinking of this film more as a form of media criticism than I enjoyed watching it as a movie.

| Jan 7, 2022

It honors the legacy, but it feels more mature and lived-in.

| Jan 7, 2022

Effortful explanations of original characters' reincarnation by different actors mix with sluggish world-building and reflexive riffs on fiction, reality, and nostalgia. What's more, the action is routine; the sense of wonder is missing.

| Jan 3, 2022

Matrix Revolutions was supposed to be the finale. It's good that it was not. Will Matrix Resurrections be the end? Maybe, maybe not. Fans will hope the star keeps checking his text messages.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 31, 2021

With one exception, the action sequences in Resurrections are plentiful but perfunctory, as though Wachowski were fulfilling a contractual obligation. Instead, the movie's pulse resides with the characters and the feelings that flow between them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 30, 2021

The romance between [Tiffany and Neo] has always been the molten core of the Matrix films; their power as a duo is what drives the story forward.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2021

The question isn't whether this movie was necessary. It wasn't.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2021

It's been 18 years between 'Matrix' sequels, but beneath the action chaos of warring computer codes are Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, proving that they're still romantic icons of timeless cool in a movie that's a stone-cold trip.

| Dec 24, 2021

The Matrix Resurrections is a recycling dump of murky effects, indifferent action and a crazily cluttered, relentlessly repetitive narrative. It's Groundhog Day in cyberpunk.

| Dec 24, 2021

This is an exultation of thoughtless mediocrity.

| Dec 23, 2021

The Wachowskis pioneered the modern cinema we know and love - it's fitting that The Matrix is back to resurrect it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 23, 2021

The Matrix Resurrections is a breath of fresh air in a time when reboots are a dime a dozen.

| Dec 23, 2021

It is a Matrix movie that could only have come with twenty-plus years of hindsight -- and insight. I was moved, impressed -- far more than I expected to be. The emotional engineering of The Matrix Resurrections is exacting and rapturous.

| Dec 23, 2021

The Matrix Resurrections is a better messenger and cultural analyst than a cinematic spectacle... It may not deliver the original's thrills, but at the least it'll start some conversations.

| Dec 23, 2021

"Resurrection"... gets a great deal of mileage from its - and our - nostalgic yearning, appreciatively stoked by Reeves and Moss's reunion.

| Dec 22, 2021