Charlie's Angels
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 15, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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20
Negative:
3
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDec 1, 2019
The picture comes armed to the teeth with slick action sequences . . . and genuinely funny lines. It’s just a pity that both the action and the dialogue are occasionally obscured by the frenzied editing. Read full review
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Total FilmKevin HarleyNov 21, 2019
Sometimes fun, sometimes flatly awkward. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeNov 12, 2019
There’s intermittent fun to be had in this throwaway relaunch of the female secret agent franchise but the party is cut short by incoherent action and a clunky script. Read full review
58
Original-CinThom ErnstNov 22, 2019
Banks is good at handling the action sequences; they are genuinely fun and well-executed, and Stewart gives the movie one of its better performances as Sabina, the unfiltered, bad-ass Angel. Sadly, Scotts’ turn as Elena, the adorable, somewhat blundering Angel is less affective, edging close to annoying. Read full review
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Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpNov 14, 2019
Charlie’s Angels talks a good talk, but struggles to back up the talk with the drama necessary to make it worthwhile. At least Stewart, Scott, and Balinska are having a good time, but they’re so switched on, and Charlie’s Angels is so switched off, that it sometimes feels like they’re in a totally different movie than the one Banks is making. You may end up wishing that you were in that movie with them. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 15, 2019
But damn, this thing is pretty much joyless — no fun at all. Reports of Stewart’s gifts as a budding comedienne have been wildly-exaggerated, the one-liners don’t land and the story’s a non-starter and a bit of a downer, to boot. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 14, 2019
Luckily, Stewart, Balinska, and Scott are just the angels you need when a movie needs rescuing. They make the salvage operation that is Charlie’s Angels go down easy. Read full review
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The Associated PressLindsey BahrNov 14, 2019
What is most surprising about the latest Charlie’s Angels, which was written and directed by Elizabeth Banks, who also plays the part of Bosley, is how little the “go girl” feminism of the 2000 film has evolved in nearly 20 years. Blame society or a lack of imagination on the part of the filmmakers, but there is nothing all that new about the ideas here. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 13, 2019
As a movie, Charlie’s Angels has serious problems, but the new Angels trio is promising and shows there’s life yet in the old formula. There’s something going on here. It’s just not quite there yet. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 13, 2019
You can see the big twist coming an hour in advance. And the big epic showdown is resolved in a manner that defies even the most cursory of examinations. There’s something almost depressing about how often this movie takes the easy, lazy way out. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryNov 13, 2019
Charlie's Angels has just enough fun with the premise to be tolerable, and not enough to justify a reboot that nobody really needed. This latest big-screen spin on the 1970s TV series brings playfulness and a stronger feminist streak courtesy of writer-director-co-star Elizabeth Banks, but it lacks the consistency to earn its wings. Read full review
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ScreenCrushMatt SingerNov 12, 2019
The person who makes the new Charlie’s Angels work when it works is Stewart, very much playing against every image of her audiences have built in their minds over the last decade or so. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubKatie RifeNov 12, 2019
The overall look of the film has the shiny, empty appearance of a newly rehabbed condo, and the quips about women’s love of cheese and gigantic closets have a similarly hollow sassy-greeting-card feel. But the outfits in those closets, it must be said, are fabulous. Read full review
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Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 12, 2019
Not quite thrilling or hilarious enough, writer-director Elizabeth Banks’ take on the 1970s television series preaches empowerment and gender equality, and leads Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska prove to be fun company. But this fizzy entertainment is yoked to a dull spy story which recycles genre tropes without adding much that is new to the mix. Read full review
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The PlaylistKimber MyersNov 12, 2019
There’s no big action set piece à la “Mission: Impossible” here and no single line of memorable dialogue to reference. But someone will have created a supercut of Kristen Stewart’s best moments on whatever app replaces YouTube, and that will remain more indelible than the movie as an actual movie, especially for the girls who see themselves or women they want to see on screen. Read full review
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TimeStephanie ZacharekNov 15, 2019
A shaggy, listless action movie that’s too messy to be fun. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNov 15, 2019
Where the last two Charlie’s Angels installments were sold on their trio of stars, this soft reboot has leads at various levels of recognizability, and they all seem to be acting in their own movie. Read full review
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SlateInkoo KangNov 14, 2019
Where Charlie’s Angels really falters, though, is in the jokes, as Banks is the only actress on screen with any real comic chops. One can’t help wondering what might’ve been if she’d concerned herself more with being her weird self and less with trying to make every woman in the audience feel validated. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNov 12, 2019
Instead of engaging what we get is a plodding, unfocused effort with few genuine thrills to speak of, the kind of movie that would play best on an airplane when you are eager to kill time. Read full review
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Time OutJoshua RothkopfNov 12, 2019
For all of its #MeToo heavy lifting, though, the film still doesn’t work, mainly for the same reasons as before: Constructed as symbols (not human beings), these characters have too much spy stuff to do and yet, not quite enough. Read full review
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