Justice League: reviews

What the critics say average 4.4 from 7 outlets

• 7.5 USA TodayBrian Truitt 'Justice League' does more right than wrong. Instead of having its heroes punch each other a lot, most of the tension comes from philosophical differences on what it means to serve the greater good. Read
• 6.5 VarietyOwen Gleiberman The film is the definition of an adequate high-spirited studio lark: no more, no less. If fans get excited about it, that may mostly be because they?re excited about getting excited. Yet the movie is no cheat. It?s a tasty franchise delivery system that kicks a certain series back into gear. Read
• 5.8 Rolling StonePeter Travers The scenes of the League members together, bickering and bonding, spike the film with humor and genuine feeling, creating a rooting interest in the audience. Without it, the film would crumble. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw Good, evil and dullness do battle(...). Superheroes team up to save planet Earth from destruction, but not boredom. Read
• 3.5 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy This hodgepodge throws a bunch of superheroes into a mix that neither congeals nor particularly makes you want to see more of them in future(...). Fatigue, repetition and a laborious approach to exposition are the keynotes of this affair. Read
• 2.0 The TelegraphRobbie Collin It?s consistently embarrassing to watch, and features plot holes so yawningly vast they have a kind of Grand Canyon-like splendour: part of you wants to hang around to see what they look like at sunset. Read
• 1.5 Vanity FairRichard Lawson 'Justice League' is a big, ugly mess(...). It?s rather staggering, how pretty much nothing in the film works, not the semi-reliable old stuff, and certainly not all the new junk they?ve crammed in. Justice League sweatily wants to be both an epic and a romp, but hasn?t the patience to truly be either. Read