Variety
It’s an accomplished and intermittently hypnotic movie. Yet you may feel like you’re occupied more than you are invested.
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Ready Player One 3D
A billionaire Massively Multiplayer Online game creator posthumously challenges his game's players to find his Easter Egg - his entire fortune - in this pop culture-saturated Spielberg sci-fi thriller, based on the hit novel of the same name. Set in the dystopian society of the year 2045, vast numbers of the planet's population escape the awfulness of reality by entering OASIS, the MMO in which the Easter Egg is hidden. All are able to compete, and it's an eager Wade Watts (Tyler Sheridan) who finds the first clue.
2018Rating: M, Violence & offensive language140 minsUSA
ActionScience FictionThriller3DBlockbuster
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg ('Saving Private Ryan', 'Schindler's List', 'Catch Me If You Can')
- Writer:
- Ernest ClineEric EasonZak Penn
- Cast:
- Tye SheridanOlivia CookeBen MendelsohnSimon PeggMark RylanceHannah John-KamenT.J. MillerWin MorisakiMark DouglasPhilip Zhao
Ready Player One 3D / Reviews
Total Film
Spielberg gets his game face on with spectacular results. One extended scene - no spoilers! - is as fun as cinema gets.
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You're left with the overriding sensation of a master playing someone else's greatest hits.
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The Telegraph
Its vision of a world fixated on cultural nursery food has a spiky topicality and an occasionally piercing satirical bite.
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The Guardian
Others may want to unplug from the paint-by-number characters and shallow plot.
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Newsroom
A film that's as superficial and hollow as one of the season's chocolate treats, but looks as shiny and welcoming.
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IndieWire
It runs too long and drags a bunch in its final third, but make no mistake: This is Spielberg’s biggest crowdpleaser in years, a CGI ride that wields the technology with an eye for payoff.
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Empire Magazine
Spielberg balances sugar-rush nostalgia with an involving story to create a pure, uncynical, cinematic ride that recaptures the magic of his early films.
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