It’s impossible not to mention the familiar tropes and second-hand characters. But this is science-fiction escapism at its very best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The movie follows a rather outmoded model of large-scale disaster movies that have fallen out of fashion in Hollywood.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2022

The Wandering Earth isn't especially deep, but it's an explosive achievement of filmmaking

| Original Score: 4 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

There's enough fun here to paper over the cracks, and Gwo does a serviceable job in ticking the right boxes and delivering an enjoyable mix of explosive thrills and melodrama

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2020

The idea, I admit, is interesting, but it's lazily executed. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 19, 2020

The Wandering Earth isn't a bad film at all if you want to kill a few hours wondering what is going to explode next - it's just hampered by an overly-rigid and predictable structure.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 8, 2020

The "issues" of the blockbuster are all here, with the lack of logic (not to mention complete disregard for the laws of physics), the "thin" characters, the clichés, and the overall lack of depth

| Dec 25, 2019

The Wandering Earth is definitely bold and silly, but when a film looks as gorgeous as this, it's hard not to be mesmerised.

| Original Score: 6.7/10 | Nov 6, 2019

[...] It matches the insanity and spectacle of a good Roland Emmerich movie and is far more consistently imaginative with its bizarre premise.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 3, 2019

The Wandering Earth champions Chinese heroes no more than Hollywood movies champion American might - making the film one of China's best forays into building soft power to date

| May 30, 2019

There's nothing new on offer in The Wandering Earth, but it does prove that China is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to making the kind of silly big-budget blockbusters that have been peppered throughout Hollywood for the last few decades.

| May 29, 2019

Bombastic blockbuster Chinese sci-fi has cursing, violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2019

The plot is fairly simplistic, but it's overcomplicated with extra characters and nonstop action chaos.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2019

The Wandering Earth really is quite preposterous, but it's crazily colourful, impressively propulsive and, in the end, embarrassingly enjoyable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 20, 2019

[An] opportunity to see something different from Chinese cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2019

If anything, it veers into the "so bad it's good" territory of cinema's terrain. It also offers also plenty of opportunities to examine Chinese projections of armageddon and bureaucracy... However, none of these elements make it a good film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 15, 2019

It's almost impressive how Gwo manages to rip off "Gravity," "Sunshine," and "2001," all at the same time.

| Original Score: D+ | May 14, 2019

It's exactly the mix of cheesy and crowd-pleasing that you'd expect from a blockbuster, with eye-popping CGI sci-fi set dressing to give it a little extra oomph.

| May 14, 2019

Critics well-versed in the relationship between state and cinema will undoubtedly have a lot to say about those themes, but this should not detract from the fact that, as a piece of broad entertainment, there is plenty to enjoy.

| May 14, 2019

Loud, frenetic, and filled with sublime industrial and cosmic moments, blasts for fire and rockets, falling boulders and chunks of ice and blocks of concrete.

| May 14, 2019