...a nearly 140 minutes slog through poor storytelling, boring characters, laughably bad dialogue, and CGI overload.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

If you’d asked me ... if it would matter that I’d spend a good three-quarters of a movie having no idea what was going on, I would have said: Yes. Yes, that would matter. But that was before I’d seen Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

| Jun 21, 2022

The outcome here is uneven: admirable for its ambition and mindless entertainment value, unable to hold up under close scrutiny, and often dazzlingly beautiful.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2022

It's a celebration of color and adventure and that's gotta be worth something.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2021

City of a Thousand Planets leaves much to be desired. Yes, it has all the eye-popping visual candy of a typical summer blockbuster but it lacks an original story line.

| Aug 25, 2021

The visuals are amazing, but the witless banter recalls Katherine Heigl and Gerald Butler far more than it stirs memories of Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2021

Cara Delevingne and Rihanna cannot save Luc Besson's vacuous blockbuster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2021

There are a few amusing sci-fi concoctions running around, but they're savagely humbled by the dreadful conversations and lackluster love banter.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 5, 2020

DeHaan and Delevingne have zero chemistry.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Though Luc Besson's usual failings have been amplified by his ambition, that ambition is worth seeing for the extremity of the spectacle alone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2020

It deserves a hand for its go for broke, no holds barred attitude. But sometimes, effort alone is not enough to stand out.

| Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2020

I think I can sum this film up by saying; The Visuals = Good Bonkers, The Plot = Bad Bonkers. Believe me, it's all bonkers. It is garishly multi-coloured bobbins on an insanely huge scale. It is mostly entertaining and the visual feast is worth it.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 2, 2020

There's no excuse for a movie this insane to be so terminally dull.

| Original Score: D | Jul 1, 2020

Besson is not the best of storytellers, but ... the style is all-encompassing enough to turn back around and render the story and characters coherent.

| Jul 1, 2020

I really loved this world.

| May 12, 2020

It was different.

| May 12, 2020

If you're worn down by grim visions of the future, Valerian is the antidote. It's rambunctious and outrageous, but above all else, it keeps things fun.

| May 12, 2020

The human heroes may receive top billing, but it's the world of Valerian that steals the show.

| Mar 30, 2020

DeHaan and Delevingne tried their best in their performances. That paid off in places, but the rest of the film just did not hold water.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 10, 2019

The fact that it winds up as empty and cynical as any made-by-a-committee movie is what murders it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 27, 2019