The most important upcoming DC movie is Ezra Miller’s The Flash. The film has been in the discussion quite a bit at first because of the misdoings of Ezra Miller but after a point the film was in discussion because of the surreal test screening rating scores. What is weird out of the three DC movies releasing this year, The Flash is the only one to have great test screenings reviews. We’ve already heard the abomination that Aquaman 2 is going to be that forced the test audiences to walk out of the theatres. No one saw Shazam 2 so no point talking about. DC has had two flops back to back, thanks to Black Adam. So, they need a desperate win. Will Flash be that win? Let’s see what the critics say.
The Flash Reviews Round-Up: Just Another Superhero Movie?
Matt Singer (ScreenCrush) – “Michael Keaton’s Batman return saves this movie.” Original Score: 6/10
Justin Clark (Slant Magazine) – “Nothing Batman or Supergirl do in The Flash to save the world is more effective than what Barry Allen does to save it with a hug and a can of tomatoes.” Original Score: 2.5/4
Peter Howell (Toronto Star) –“The story gets messy — multiple cameos and a rushed intro for Sasha Calle as Supergirl — but I like how it follows Keaton’s war cry: “Let’s get nuts.” Original Score: 3/4
Liz Shannon Miller (Consequence) –“Even in a vacuum, or an alternate universe with no Spider-Verse or MCU, The Flash would just feel middling.” Original Score: B-
Tim Robey {Daily Telegraph (UK)} –“The film’s parade of “remember this?!” in-jokes makes it the opposite of a reset – it’s more like a scratched record.” Original Score: 2/5
Esther Zuckerman (Bloomberg News) – “Although it’s not without some fun moments, The Flash often substitutes cameos for genuine thrills, and a general aura of exhaustion hovers over it all.”
Chris Hewitt (UK) (Empire Magazine) – “Set to be one of the final entries in what we know as the DCEU, this is also one of the best, a witty and warm buddy comedy that deserves to be more than just a Flash in the pan.” Original Score: 4/5
Matt Zoller Seitz (RogerEbert.com) – “The movie puts a lot of thought into what it wants to say and not enough into how it says it.” Original Score: 2.5/4
Kevin Maher {Times (UK)}- “A morally specious movie that’s mostly about reflogging the cultural canon of an entertainment conglomerate.” Original Score: 2/5
Trace Sauveur (Austin Chronicle) – “It’s a pitiful disservice to itself, turning a relatively fun, if rocky, movie into nothing but another product designed as a carousel where you can point at things and people you recognize.” Original Score: 2/5
Kate Erbland (indieWire) – “Taken on its own merits, Andy Muschietti’s film has lots to offer, and frequently shows flashes (apologies) of brilliance that set it a cut above most of its existing DC Universe brethren.” Original Score: B-
Christian Holub (Entertainment Weekly) – “It’s well-trod territory at this point, even for a speedster.” Original Score: C+
Alonso Duralde (The Film Verdict) – “Maybe nerd culture was a mistake.”
Matthew Jackson (AV Club) – “It’s sometimes buried under layers and layers of storytelling knots that the film never fully untangles, but the fun is there, and when the film is really working, that turns out to be enough.” Original Score: B-
Charlotte O’Sullivan (London Evening Standard) – “This is one of the best superhero movies of the 21st century so far. Just sit back and enjoy the flashes of greatness.” Original Score: 4/5
David Fear (Rolling Stone) – “The Flash is, by far, the best movie to come out of this modern, post-Nolan Warners/DC collaboration…”
Peter Bradshaw (Guardian) – “Despite some diverting touches, Miller’s smirking, gurning, mugging doppelganger performance is a trial and in any case gets lost in the inevitable third-act CGI battle apocalypse.” Original Score: 2/5
Clarisse Loughrey {Independent (UK)} – “The Flash, much like Barry himself, has been stranded with no real sense of history, and no real sense of the future, either. It does the best it can.” Original Score: 3/5
Brian Truitt
USA Today
“Worth the hype, though trying to do so much also leads to a head-scratching kitchen-sink climax.” Original Score: 3/4
Owen Gleiberman (Variety) – “In The Flash, the multiverse of possibilities that opens up by toying with the past becomes an excuse to throw everything but the Batcave sink at the audience.”
William Bibbiani (TheWrap) –“A movie that spends all its time racing from one poorly-thought out story element to another, from one only modestly satisfying nostalgia shout-out to another, and with only questionable results. How fitting, yet how disappointing: The Flash has the runs.”
David Rooney (Hollywood Reporter) –“If The Flash ultimately proves uneven, its wobbly climactic showdown far less interesting than the more character-driven buildup, the story’s core of a young man struggling to reconcile with the loss of his mother carries it through.”
Andres Muschietti (IT) will helm The Flash, and Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey, Batgirl) will pen the story. Additionally, it will feature the Bruce Wayne/Batman characters played by Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton, as well as Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Maribel Verdu as Nora Allen, Ian Loh as a young Barry Allen, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Rudy Mancuso in unspecified roles.
The Flash is slated for a theatrical release on June 23, 2023.
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