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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 27 Jul 2017

You don't watch The Fifth Element for its storytelling, you watch it for its joyous, ridiculous sense of place and style, and that's doubly…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Jul 2017

The story is slight but sufficient, and the fun keeps coming…

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By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 27 Jul 2017

With unsympathetic leads, a clunky script and timeworn themes, Valerian stands and falls on the strength of its visual elements and action…

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By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Jul 2017

Watching this, your cerebral activity may not be as intense as usual…

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By Rohan Naahar (197) for Hindustan Times (753) on 27 Jul 2017

About an hour into the film, Besson pauses the story and forces you to gawk at a shape-shifting Rihanna prancing about on a stripper's pole,…

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By Greg Klymkiw (20) for Electric Sheep (203) on 27 Jul 2017

Yes, it's safe to say that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is stupid, but it's dopey, dumb and delightfully loopy in all the right ways…

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By Dan Webster (147) for Spokesman-Review (Washington) (147) on 27 Jul 2017

Having Captain Jack Sparrow step onto the scene would have been far more believable…

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By Graeme Tuckett (166) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 26 Jul 2017

Luc Besson is at his best when he lets his imagination off the leash and makes a film for the sheer pleasure of putting on a show…

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By Jeff Reed (4) for Columbus Alive (355) on 26 Jul 2017

If The Fifth Element is director Luc Besson's Star Wars, then Valerian personifies the prequels: a more lush and vivid galaxy with millions…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 26 Jul 2017

You can see the money on the screen. It is a work of wonderful visual imagination, but the script and dialog are weak…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 26 Jul 2017

The feature-length equivalent of that repetitive noise your 9-year-old son makes when you're driving him to a friend's house…

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By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 25 Jul 2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a visual banquet that leaves you feeling sick…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 Jul 2017

From the first time we meet the title character - after introducing the wonderful, endangered world of the Pearl People - I felt that Dane…

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By Matt Looker (202) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 25 Jul 2017

This film just basically forces its audience to be space tourists on a mandatory guided tour…

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By Jon Espino (144) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 25 Jul 2017

Despite the visual splendor, this 3D spectacle lacks any depth…

Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Craig Takeuchi (26) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Jul 2017

While the film overexercises its imaginative muscle visually in dazzling ways, its characters and plot suffer from neglect and undernourishment…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 24 Jul 2017

Big, unabashedly geeky fun, but the dialogue is weak and Dane DeHaan is all wrong to play a swaggering, self-assured bad boy…

Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 23 Jul 2017

[A] succession of absolutely stunning set pieces with tenuous substance on top…

Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 23 Jul 2017

It's the kind of film you can go all in with its flow and love it, or roll your eyes by how bloated it is and hate it…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 23 Jul 2017

a pinball machine of a movie that flings us from one sci-fi scenario to the next, caring little for continuity or context…

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