Ready Player One: reviews

What the critics say

• VarietyOwen Gleiberman ?Ready Player One? tells a breathless and relatively coherent story ? essentially, the future of civilization is riding on the outcome of a video game ? but the movie, first and foremost, is a coruscating explosion of pop-culture eye candy?. Read
• Vanity FairJohanna Robinson ?[...] all of the real-world heroes and their interactions outside the OASIS are so well-done that fans of both the the book (which necessarily goes deeper into the narrative?s backstory) and Spielberg?s facility with tender human connection may lament how much of the film focuses on spectacle?. Read
• The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore ?Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One makes big changes to the specifics and structure of Ernest Cline's best-selling novel but keeps the spirit and level-up thrills intact?. Read
• El PaísCarlos Boyero ?You can't even console yourself with the impressive music that John William has always brought to Spielberg's films. In this movie, he has replaced him with the forgettable Alan Silvestri?. Read
• El MundoLuis Martínez "The director outline a perfect but also bitter and hypnotic allegory of the power of imagination. Not only his but everybody's?. Read
• CinemaníaYago García ?One could think that the film is missing something: an essential piece in Spielberg's movies. What could it be? The ability to make the characters matter?. Read