Utterly revolutionary visual splendor and a time capsule to the ingenuity given to movies.

| Mar 23, 2025

Employing cinema’s first use of computer animation on a large scale, Lisberger’s team breaks new ground that would later shape the way such genre pictures are made. But his distant tone and familiar plot structure have aged badly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2023

All the glow-stick pizzazz is in service of a laughably mundane plot.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 30, 2022

The film was groundbreaking in its day for visualizing computing culture in an era before home computers, point-and-click operating systems, and cyberspace, and for using rudimentary computer animation to create the computer imagery…

| Aug 19, 2022

It’s a bit like Through the Looking Glass combined with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — a skilled commingling of wonder and adventure.

| Jul 10, 2022

What's so special about effects that service the same illusion as cosmetics on a corpse? No matter how hard it tries to look like it, this picture has no life in it.

| Nov 10, 2021

The first part of the movie makes very little sense, throwing jumbled gobs of jargon at the viewer in the hopes that they'll just accept the overload of information.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 8, 2020

Although Tron, with all its jazzy computer-generated imagery, is intermittently fascinating to look at, it's a pretty poor excuse for a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2020

TRON is a sci-fi action adventure that delivers on a promise of being something you've never seen before.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 4, 2020

Director Steven Lisberger treats his actors like props, which is understandable when one considers how technically oriented the project is.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2020

I am increasingly fascinated by what was achieved with such limited means. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

Tron, simply and purely, is one of the most original movies of all time — a genuine Fantasia for the 80s.

| Apr 10, 2020

Tron is a prophetic film. I can't help but feel inspired and filled with life when I see it.

| Apr 2, 2020

The visual appeal of the film is supported by a simple and well-crafted plot. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

I really thought it was a cool sci-fi film and something different and unique.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 15, 2019

A thrilling film to watch just because the visuals are so precisely what they should be: transporting you both into and beyond a very specific time in our culture's videographic history.

| Jan 29, 2019

While its visual effects have aged laughably poorly, the movie can be quite lovely to look at, particularly since its CGI isn't trying to represent anything more realistic than 1982-era CGI.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 5, 2015

Dazzling but lightweight.

| Apr 2, 2014

It may seem somewhat dated these days, but it would probably be fair to credit this Disney movie with being the forerunner of the Toy Story movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2014

The visuals were groundbreaking and the famous light-cycle sequence is undeniably cool, but the years haven't been kind to the tech-talk script or offensive synth-mongous soundtrack.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2014