
Flicks, Giles Hardie
Here’s the pull quote, people: Pixels - It’s not as bad as you’ve heard.
Full reviewWhen 1980s-era arcade game characters attack the United States, the country's military call up the finest video gamers - Adam Sandler (Grown Ups 2), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Josh Gad - to repel the threat. Directed by Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone's Chris Columbus, and based on French director Patrick Jean's short film.
Here’s the pull quote, people: Pixels - It’s not as bad as you’ve heard.
Full reviewDesperately caters to Gen-X junk nostalgia without bothering to think that maybe those Reagan-era kids have grown up a bit.
Full reviewSaving graces, almost: an insanely ripe performance by Peter Dinklage and a surreal moment involving Hall & Oates.
Full reviewSome movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, while others are assembled with such indifference that you are essentially left waiting for them to start. "Pixels" somehow manages both.
Full reviewThis one-note comedy runs out of gas within an hour and should have been trimmed to a neat 90 minutes.
Full reviewThere is an actual story backbone, told efficiently, with regular laughs, committed performances and a believable throughline on friendship, love and other well-worn themes.
Full reviewThere's a certain thrill to seeing humans face off against Frogger. If only as much care had been put into the living characters as the pixelated ones.
Full reviewPixels is available to stream in Australia now on Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Foxtel and Binge and Prime Video Store.
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