It has grand ambitions and a decent eye for visuals. But its presentation is soulless and unrefined, coming off less like a magical adventure of its own right, and more like the sugar free alternative to Narnia.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

A film that keeps throwing production design at you to obscure the fact that nearly everything else is a bit of a mess.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 13, 2022

A 99-minute mess of stilted dialogue, wooden performances, and predictable themes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

It's a little light on the story, and it's kind of predictable.

| Oct 5, 2021

The final product is soulless, sickeningly sweet, plastic, and static, operating on a dearth of originality to stretch itself over just 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

For all its opulence and preciousness, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is devoid of any depth or originality.

| Jul 1, 2020

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a lot. And none of it is good.

| Dec 6, 2019

Despite the eye-popping sets, magnificent costumes, beautiful music and stunning ballet in this Disney extravaganza, this story just doesn't ring true.

| Aug 23, 2019

A disjointed but entertaining ride through a magical kingdom kids can only dream of.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Mackenzie Foy does a very good job as the smart and beautiful Clara and offers a believable performance as this iconic character in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 12, 2019

A few song and dance numbers would have livened things up and could have turned this dull excursion into a fun sing-along like "Labyrinth" (1986). No such luck.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Just a little too mediocre and a little too generic to find its audience.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 1, 2019

A sumptuously designed visual feast that has no real personality or soul of its own

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2019

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms might be visually beautiful, but the film's story falls apart, and the characters are uninteresting with murky motivations.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 15, 2019

A fractured product that it's more disappointing than disaster.

| May 2, 2019

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is mostly worth seeing for Copeland's dancing but it is too small a part of this rather dull if pretty tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Knightley's panto performance is easily the sparkiest part of a film that otherwise struggles to get up to speed.

| Apr 16, 2019

The sets are lavish, the colors are vibrant, and the ballet sequences are good. That's about it.

| Mar 25, 2019

If Santa Claus had a fever dream fueled by figgy pudding indigestion and an egg nog bender, his subsequent Yuletide hallucinations would probably look tame compared to Disney's aggressively opulent phantasmagoria.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 5, 2019

There is nothing that could draw anyone to see this film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2019