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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies' greatest stone face since Buster Keaton. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Despite the best efforts of stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, this new "Day" is tired and corny. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Although the new version, which stars Keanu Reeves, is likely to make audiences pine for the meta-irony of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," it's not a complete failure. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The story, an updated version of the 1951 classic about a portentous extraterrestrial visit, feels musty and derivative, and not only because it's a remake. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    All this is presented in an expensive, good-looking film that is well-made by Scott Derrickson, but to no avail. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The original Day the Earth Stood Still had a paranoid poetry that lifted the audience up even as it warned the world to come together. This one is so dour it just comes off as a scolding. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    This botched remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" seriously dishonors the seriously fine 1951 sci-fi landmark on which it's based. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Any movie that awards a former Monty Python cast member a Nobel Prize in anything cannot be all bad. And The Day the Earth Stood Still could be worse. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    How can this movie not be fun? Read full review

  • 10
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    What's never explained is why anyone would do such a dumb remake of Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic. Read full review

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