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By Dan Jolin (289) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 23 Jul 2017

A wildly ambitious space opera, but also a self-indulgent narrative morass. Sometimes, it seems, creativity can benefit from a few limitations…

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By Kevin A. Ranson (644) for MovieCrypt.com (644) on 22 Jul 2017

A family friendly procedural space opera fantasy adventure... Nicholas Hoult (would) have been a better choice for lead actor…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 22 Jul 2017

Twenty years after The Fifth Element, writer-director Luc Besson has once again delivered a widescreen, sci-fi spectacle full of rampant whimsy,…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2017

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

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By Kanin Srimaneekulroj (39) for Bangkok Post (172) on 20 Jul 2017

Valerian would certainly make for a good television series, where the characters are allowed to take their time and be fully immersed in the…

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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 20 Jul 2017

Luc Besson shows and then tells - and tells, and tells, and tells…

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By Jamal-Dean Grootboom (43) for Independent Online (South Africa) (258) on 20 Jul 2017

It could've been a cool interstellar buddy-cop series…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for Splice Today (140) on 20 Jul 2017

One gets the sense this world has enough stories in it for three or four movies…

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

By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 20 Jul 2017

You come away admiring the effort while lamenting the execution, but swinging and missing is always better than not swinging at all…

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By Thelma Adams (133) for New York Observer (1,400) on 20 Jul 2017

In the end, Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a mixed bag: a ripe visual adventure of limitless imagination hamstrung…

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By Michael Gingold (56) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 20 Jul 2017

It's a shame this sugar rush has no nutritional value, which becomes increasingly clear the further Valerian proceeds into its slight narrative…

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By Theresa Smith (147) for Weekend Special (South Africa) (19) on 20 Jul 2017

Two dimensional acting mars a beautifully realised multi-dimensional concept of a huge city filled with aliens from all over the galaxy…

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

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 20 Jul 2017

Imagine Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, etc. rolled up in one but corralled by a good director with impish humor…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for L.A. Biz (397) on 20 Jul 2017

Visually dazzling but narratively derivative and emotionally void, Luc Besson's out-of-this-world Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets…

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By Tina Hassannia (118) for National Post (1,405) on 20 Jul 2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is colourful, multitudinous, often imaginative, but the lack of a hermeneutic world and internal…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2017

Utterly unreal space story from Luc Besson (he of The Fifth Element fame), who seems to have watched James Cameron's Avatar and decided he…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 20 Jul 2017

As visually splendid as his movie is, Besson's miscast DeHaan as his 'player Major,' a serious distraction in a gloriously gonzo film…

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By Molly Freeman (149) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 20 Jul 2017

Besson's Valerian is a visually stunning, if overlong, sci-fi romp that's weighed down by an uncharming dynamic between its two leads…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 20 Jul 2017

That the film feels like a ten-year-old directed it is both an accurate summation of its shortcomings and a high compliment indeed…

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

By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 20 Jul 2017

Maybe just rewatch The Fifth Element instead…

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