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Metascore
9 reseñas · Proporcionado por Metacritic.com
- 80The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyDumont doesn’t stint on the Lucas-like dialectics, and he works wonders with wryly blunt yet nonetheless spectacular effects-driven action scenes. But, most exquisitely, he delights in visions of earthly, natural majesty.
- 75The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorDumont’s space oddity might not always land on the right side of its jokes and provocations, but every now and then it takes the breath away.
- With its eclectic cast, unconventional visuals, and clever reimagining of mythological elements, Bruno Dumont’s film brings audiences on a peculiar adventure!
- The overall experience of “The Empire” is one that is consistently surprising and rarely dull. That being said, it’s not necessarily successful as a comedy.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerLike his other recent films, this one isn’t easy to sit through, though it’s definitely original and, per custom, impeccably made. You can accuse Dumont of many things, including testing the viewer’s patience, but at least he hasn’t sold out yet and gone over to the dark side.
- 50Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneyIt is hard to decide whether Dumont is treating his genre borrowings with belittling contempt, or getting a kick out of the possibilities offered; it seems safe to assume both. And while the overall weirdness has charm and shock effect, once you’ve got over the surprise of Dumont being this flippantly outre the pleasure wears thin.
- 50VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangDespite fun trappings . . . the actual conflict in the film boils down to a series of very simplistic binaries: good and evil, sacred and secular, female and male, one and zero, being and nothingness.
- 50Slant MagazineWilliam RepassSlant MagazineWilliam RepassNotable as it is for evoking a kind of cosmic banality, writer-director Bruno Dumont’s anti-space opera The Empire runs into same the pitfall as many parodies of its kind.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis sci-fi twaddle, soothingly framed by rolling sand dunes and a slash of crystal coastline (dreamily photographed by David Chambille), eventually tests our patience.