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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: In space, Jack hopes, someone may hear you dream. But in a movie theater, no one will see you yawn. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The agony of being a longtime Tom Cruise fan has always been a burden, but now it's just, well, dispiriting. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The mystery posed by "Oblivion" as a whole is why its mysteries are posed so clumsily, and worked out so murkily. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Director Joseph Kosinski focuses on cool visuals but stints on a compelling plot. It's a dazzler, but the story lacks the impact of the futuristic look. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: You start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: A moderately clever dystopian mindbender with a gratifying human pulse, despite some questionable narrative developments along the way. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: An unsettling sense of not-quite-right coats all of the film's steely surfaces, and Kosinski and his co-writers give audiences plenty of time to absorb the unease and gear up for the action. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Oblivion" may not live up fully to its grand ambitions, but it isn't for lack of trying. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: For those who enjoy the simple thrill of handsomely stylized image-making, ''Oblivion'' is mostly mesmerizing. Read more
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Sometimes Oblivion can be pretty oblivious. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The story eventually devolves into a grab bag of sci-fi tropes but, as with so many other Cruise productions, the sheer scale of everything is so mind-numbing that you may not notice. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: When you go to a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic barn dance starring Tom Cruise and his space guns, you expect a little zap with your thoughtful pauses. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Kosinski offers plenty of action here, and he lets the plot reveals bleed out slowly (explanations keep coming right to the end). Yes, a great deal is derivative, but it's fast-moving derivative. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Stitched together from spare bits of other, often better films,[it]stumbles awkwardly in story and plot, shuffling toward the predictable explosions and fireballs of the third act. Yet...Oblivion is so beautiful to look at. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: All the eye candy in the world can't mask the sensation that you've seen this all before...and done better. Too bad the movie's script wasn't given the same attention as its sleek, brave-new-world look. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: It takes more than an hour for Oblivion to become whatever it is the filmmakers think it's supposed to be. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A terrific-looking sci-fier that loses steam in the second half. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: More adventurous than your typical Hollywood tent pole, "Oblivion" makes you remember why science fiction movies pulled you in way back when and didn't let you go. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: The mix of gee-whiz gadgetry and the day-to-day routineness of Jack and Victoria's lives is interesting enough, but the film is too glacially paced for it to work. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The filmmakers don't even have the courage to see the story to its proper end, opting for a ridiculous finale that feels vaguely insulting. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Playing spot-the-influence is the most fun you'll have during this expensive-looking, slow-moving plod through familiar territory. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Feels ever more grounded and stuck ... Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A movie that combines a lot of different films, yet somehow remains less than the sum of its parts ... Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: Kosinski's personal commitment to gorgeous artifice above all other considerations only harms the film so much. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: As its palpable sense of dread -- well-sustained in a gently cascading first hour -- gives way to dead ends, this Omega Movie shoots itself in the foot. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: So "Top Gun" has become "Wall-E." Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: Although it looks spectacular and boasts some pungent ideas, the surprise-to-running-time ratio is out of whack. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: [Cruise] oversees some pretty impressive stuff here, from the drones that ping-pong around in the air to the bubbleship that Jack uses to go to and fro to that awesome house with its panoramic views. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Oblivion is imperfect but some of its imperfections result from being overly ambitious. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: This is the sci-fi movie equivalent of a pretty damn good cover band. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Chicago Sun-Times: If nothing else, "Oblivion" will go down in film history as the movie where Tom Cruise pilots a white, sperm-shaped craft into a giant space uterus. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: For all the bells and whistles - an electronic score by M83, a screen-busting Imax presentation and Cruise going full throttle - Oblivion feels arid and antiseptic, untouched by human hands. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The sly, surprising and visually magnificent Tom Cruise vehicle that has forced me - and many other people, I suspect - to revise my first opinion of director Joseph Kosinski. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film is rife with elements from its finest predecessors - Kubrick, Lucas, the Wachowskis and Pixar could be listed as creative consultants - but it has the spirit of a love letter to classic sci-fi, not an opportunistic mash-up. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Instead of developing characters, Kosinski pours most of his imagination into the annihilated landscapes and futuristic gadgetry. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Oblivion is an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Oblivion gives us stars in the cast, stars in our eyes and it even tweaks a brain cell or three. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: If the dialogue and the concepts of Oblivion had been as fresh and powerful as its art direction, we'd really have something here. Instead, it's something borrowed packaged inside something new. Read more
Guy Lodge, Time Out: Kosinski continues to lavish far more thought on how his elaborate fantasy worlds look than how they work, and neither the politics nor the human stakes here coalesce into rational or relatable drama. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Director Kosinski proves himself talented in ways his Tron: Legacy didn't suggest. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Was Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever? Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: If you're able to forgive and forget, Oblivion isn't a bad place to start loving Tom Cruise all over again. Read more