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U/A (INDIA)
2017
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The Lost City of Z
Positive Reviews
188
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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3.0
The cast is terrific, with a revelatory turn from Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett; the handsome English actor brings so much poise to the role that one cant ..
Av Club
4.5
The journey into the rainforest doesnt reveal a conflict between man and nature, but a deeply human enigma.
Av Club
4.5
This is not simply a post colonial condemnation of the past, but a triumphant and shrewdly intelligent modernization of the classic epics of yore.
Den Of Geek
4.5
With his thick beard, round glasses and ever present hip flask, hes an immediately likeable supporting character, and Pattinson puts in a generously r ..
Den Of Geek
4.4
Hunnams performance is charming and lived in, easily the best work hes ever done, and scene for scene, this is a splendid film.
Rogerebert
3.0
Yet it lacks Aguirres madness; its missing the kind of enthusiasm or obsession that might help drive a movie like this.
Common Sense Media
4.5
As soon as youve got Barry Lyndon on the brain, hes off to Apocalypse Now.
Indie Wire
4.5
It makes no major dramatic missteps, yet it could have used an added dimension something to make the two hour and 20 minute running time feel like a t ..
Variety
2.5
Its a shame then that the rest of the film doesnt justify its own beauty.
We Got This Covered
4.5
This sad documentary explores how this unnecessary death came to pass.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
More pointedly, theres little sense of adventure or danger in this tale brimming with the possibility of excitement.
Austin Chronicle
5.0
The first expedition is thrilling, with its murmurs of discovery.
Time Out
3.0
Together with the colour saturated reverence of Darius Khondjis photography, it captures the wonder and the spiritual element of Fawcetts travels.
The Guardian
3.0
Its a curious film in some ways, taking what could be an exciting epic adventure in the style of David Lean and turning it into something introspectiv ..
The Guardian
4.5
The Lost City of Z is a film of phantasmagoric form, as currents of emotional discord are ever lapping against the corners of its stolid and painterly ..
4.4
The Lost City of Z is a film of phantasmagoric form, as currents of emotional discord are ever lapping against the corners of its stolid and painterly ..
3.8
The old school adventure epic is something of an endangered species.
2.0
Grays most ambitious movie yet is marred by a story arc that fails to rise or reach a climax, unnatural sounding expository dialogue, and an unforgiva ..
Screen Daily
4.5
When it comes to modern American auteurs, weve created two levels of excitement.
Collider
5.0
And yet, Grays adaptation of David Granns beloved bestseller is a far quieter, more ruminative, and confidently intimate movie than all that would sug ..
Collider
2.0
Its a strange turn for a movie like this both terrible and moving.
Vulture
4.5
Transforming Fawcett from a mere map maker into an obsessive is his conviction that a great city lies buried somewhere in the jungle.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
Although Hunnams performance as the films frustrated visionary is adept enough, it decidedly lacks charisma.
4.5
As a director, he has an old fashioned belief in cinematic beauty, in the charm and necessity of the perfectly lighted and framed face, the hauntingly ..
The New York Times
4.0
Khondjis cinematography doesnt just complement Grays movie, it deepens its meaning, strengthening the appeal of Fawcetts jungle, endlessly verdant and ..
Paste Magazine
4.5
A meditative and engrossing story about the strength of the human spirit.
IGN
5.0
The film opens with a disembodied shot of fires and drums in a jungle clearing the secrets already waiting for Fawcett, before he even knows he wants ..
Telegraph
5.0
If this Fawcett is a model of enlightenment in many ways, he remains very much a man of his moment in others.
3.5
But the final judgement about the films depiction of Native Peoples and whether or not it is imperialistic should be left to critics of color.
The Young Folks
4.0
It is a powerful and visceral portrayal of a truly unmerciful landscape.
4.0
Shot in 35 mm, Grays film feels as though its from another, more meticulous era in Hollywood.
Ny Daily News
3.5
The Lost City of Z is a handsome and ambitious historical epic, if also one thats more intellectually engaging than emotionally compelling.
Screen Rant
4.4
Slipping in references to everyone from Kubrick to Fellini, Gray creates a truly intoxicating experience, overwhelming in the best possible way.
The Globe And Mail
3.5
The film feels stretched out at over two and a half hours, and wouldnt be as hard to sit through if the lead characters evolution was depicted with so ..
5.0
What we found most interesting about this story is Fawcetts openness to the Indian cultures.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Beautifully crafted and, like its subject, high minded; it is not, however, exciting, as one might expect a tale of exploration of a dangerous environ ..
One Guys Opinion
4.5
Gray, even as he pushes at the edges of what is filmable, never loses his capacity for creating moments of rapturous beauty. See this thing on the big ..
Village Voice
3.1
New fashioned/old fashioned in a way that leaves it more Earthbound than youd like, but Hunnam is solid and Miller and Pattinson dazzle.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.1
Grays arms length storytelling offers a coherent narrative but theres little in the way of suspense or tension.
ReelViews
3.0
10 1 8 / 10 James Gray is a very patient filmmaker, and he doesnt work often.
Blu Ray
4.0
Based on the nonfiction book by David Grann, this gripping historical epic chronicles the years long quest of English explorer Percy Fawcett (played w ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
The film is filled with such insightful contradictions.When it comes to Percys actions, the primary one is between the potential repercussions of his ..
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) was a well decorated officer in the British army who, by the elite, was considered aunfortunate in his choice of anc ..
2.0
Robin: Yet another historical biopic of a hitherto unknown figure comes to us with the story of soldier, explorer, surveyor and advanced thinker Percy ..
3.0
Gray turns out to have a good way with old fashioned British diction,
The Times
2.0
The term epic boys own adventure has been much used about James Grays new film, and it is exactly that: the story of a man who never quite grew up, an ..
The Times
2.0
Fawcett, a soldier in the British Army, at first wants to make a name for himself, and to restore his familys honor, which was tarnished by his alcoho ..
Lariat
3.5
Gray never quite pulls us into Fawcetts obsession, but his respectful, respectable picture keeps us watching, interested if not deeply involved.
News Review
3.0
But its hardly a rounded portrayal only one step from moustache twiddling evil.
Radio Times
4.5
Hunnam is exceptional in depicting the mans drive.I just wanted to see a bit more of his beautiful madness.
Screen It
4.0
Theres a brutal First World War interlude too.Every so often, the narrative will lurch forward in time.
Independent
4.4
Hunnam is slow to grab us as Fawcett, but the implosive force of his performance soon takes hold.
Rolling Stone
2.5
One way to understand the form of Walther Ruttmanns Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, is to see it as producing states of flow that reinforce a flat o ..
Pop Matters
1.5
One way to understand the form of Walther Ruttmanns Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, is to see it as producing states of flow that reinforce a flat o ..
Pop Matters
4.5
The Lost City of Z is not a conventional or crowd pleasing sort of movie.It runs 140 minutes, and it often moves like a lusciously tempting fantasy of ..
The Wrap
2.0
Its true that the film has an unhurried narrative sweep and a cast of stalwarts that, superficially at least, would not look out of place in an old Er ..
Cs Monitor
2.5
Go!for good measure.The journeys frequently enumerated dangers (disease, violent natives) might bounce off Fawcett, nicely embodied by Hunnams easily ..
Film Journal
5.0
By all means, go see The Lost City of Z I wouldnt have missed it. But spare a thought for all the less celebrated characters in it ...
New York Post
4.5
It is inspired by the true story of British soldier / explorer Percy Fawcett, a visionary who forged his way into the Amazonian wilderness time and ag ..
Hindustan Times
3.5
But at least at a certain level, City of Z is fascinating to watch as a portal to a time when exploration felt as if it carried great mortal risk, jus ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.0
If it doesnt always quite reach the majestic heights to which it aspires, particularly with its narrative, the mere attempt is engrossing.
Az Central
3.5
Credit:Amazon Studios/Bleecker Street But youll leave your scepticism at the door if youre going to have a good time here.
Smh
4.5
Based on David Granns book, the film immediately calls to mind other tales of Western hubris in Amazonia, chiefly Werner Herzogs Aguirre, the Wrath of ..
Npr
4.4
It balances insights into Victorian standards of honor and duty with a grip on contemporary attitudes about the eras assertive colonialism.
Star Tribune
3.5
This is not an action movie but an adventure of the intellect and of the heart, and its not so much about the science of mapmaking and the unraveling ..
4.4
a fascinating portrait of both the limits of human knowledge and the insatiable drive to discover more
Q Network
2.0
Youre left wondering whether some decent chases and a handful of funny moments make up for the jarring sexism and uneven tone.
Daily Mail
5.0
Given Fawcetts trailblazing achievements and Grays choice to film in difficult circumstances deep in the Colombian jungle the film is oddly restrained ..
Slate
3.0
The cast cannot, however, overcome a languorous and sometimes confusing narrative, too many sketchy characterisations and an exquisitely staged but ba ..
Flim List
4.5
The film is never truly gripping, even as it impresses with its depth and scope.
Film Inquiry
5.0
The various elements and the challenges he faces, combine to give the film an epic mood, made the more epic by the ending.
3.0
James Grays sprawling, yet superficial adventure saga about an explorer obsessed with Amazon River exploration a century ago.
Susang Ranger
3.8
A throwback to the good old days when adventure movies had riveting performances, gorgeous camerawork and the ability to tell stories that made sense, ..
Observer
4.0
Its a pleasant surprise to encounter a David Lean style sweeping epic.
Flim Threet
4.5
It isnt only grand adventure that, in Grays artistic purview, cant be filmed with a classical fullnessits life itself.
New Yorker
5.0
Its a tableau that both outlines whats expected of a gentleman and shows how false it all is: The handsome looking uniform means nothing without a bod ..
Time
2.0
James Grays The Lost City of Z (the Z is pronounced zed by the films British characters) is precisely the sort of grand adventure that made me fall in ..
Boston Herald
3.0
Composed in widescreen and moving with an uncharacteristic propulsiveness a willingness to rattle around when proceedings turn tremulous and sweep in ..
The Film Stage
4.4
Film by film, Gray is becoming a truer, more effective version of the filmmaker inside him.
Chicago Tribune
3.8
Or you can see the movie itself, which raises more questions than it answers but is a beautiful and oddly distant thing.
Boston Globe
3.0
The whole point of Heart of Darkness is that no one corner of humanity has a monopoly on barbarism.
Uproxx
4.0
Before you scoff, I just want to specify that I mean specifically the scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark of Indiana Jones teaching, leading exploration ..
Uproxx
4.0
In the great Gray tradition, theres an earnestness in the performances of Charlie Hunnam and Tom Holland that could date to a bygone cinematic age.
The Irish Times
2.5
But Grays style is calm and stately, a pastiche of classical filmmaking without much life to it.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.5
The Lost City of Z is a miraculous movie, at once moving, intimidating, and gorgeous to behold.
The Atlantic
4.5
It does however have an acute awareness of how adventure has functioned as a cinematic genre, ever since its inception.
Birth Movies Death
3.0
Murray, round and juicy as a grub, proves jaw droppingly spiteful.But its not enough.
Standard
2.0
While Hunnam fails to incite excitement, Pattison surely and solidly scratches away at the sleepy sepia of this too solemn biopic.
Pajiba
4.4
The Lost City of Z is a rapturous achievement worthy of discovery, its enigmatic brilliance of a sublime majesty unique in and of itself.
Movie Freak
2.0
Its handsomely shot, but stuffy and never truly finds its footing, and should come with a flowchart to help viewers keep track of the shifting whereab ..
Detroit News
2.0
This may be a story of an old world, but Gray ably makes the case that its hardly as antiquated as many would like to think.Lost City is the rare hist ..
Consequence Of Sound
3.8
And audiences havent exactly flocked to the filmmakers Coppola esque melodramas.
Nj
4.5
This is a different sort of movie: a stately, elegant epic paced like an elegy.
Vox
3.0
Pattinson delivers an impressively subtle, yet brilliant performance.
Hey U Guys
3.0
His dedicated, composed vision makes no apologies for its unhurried pace, its meditative tone and its relative lack of action (though its scope does p ..
The Play List
5.0
Grays working at the same level, distilling a massive, multifaceted story about empires and adventurers into an intimate drama with deeply personal st ..
Now Toronto
4.0
While The Lost City of Z never manages to rival the scope of those classics, it more than enough manages to hold up its own.
Scroll
4.0
In weaving these two pieces together, The Lost City of Z becomes a tour de force in holding Golden Age cinema up to the standards of modern psychology ..
Ner Dist
4.0
There arent many directors working today with the same ambition and exquisite craftsmanship of James Gray.
Cine Vue
5.0
With lush visuals, intelligent performances and a lingering lyricism, this is an instant classic that cements Hunnams star power.
Games Radar
3.0
If Granns Fawcett is intended to be taken as definitive, Grays approach is revisionist, to simplistically diminishing returns.
Lw Lies
4.5
This may be rewriting history, but when you take the film on its own terms, its a nuanced, thrilling portrait of a man fighting convention and prejudi ..
Abc
3.1
For a film about risk and death, The Lost City of Z is remarkably safe.
Kansas City
4.4
If you long for a film in the tradition of such grown up entertainments as Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient, this is one to get lost in.
Stl Today
4.5
Percy seeks to reverse his countrymens imperialist outlook, but in Grays beautiful, haunting film, good intentions are no match for the jungle.
The Stranger
4.0
If he doesnt get his second nomination for The Lost City of Z, something is desperately wrong with the Academy Awards.
Screen Crush
3.0
The jungles look fabulous. But theres historical detailing to fill in, and thats where the film takes on weight and waffle.
Ft
3.0
James Grays long but very entertaining film reminds us of the derring do that once drove Britons to overrun the globe.
Independent Ie
3.0
Its an impressively designed film, with vivid characters and some rather amazing situations.
Contact Music
4.4
In fact, the movies visuals do a better job of getting us into Fawcetts head than Hunnam does.
Larsen On Film
5.0
This is not to say Grays filmmaking style is boring or unoriginal.
Christianity Today
5.0
Gray has made an old fashioned epic that trembles and sighs, illuminates and moves with contemporary insight.
Vanity Fair
1.5
Movies Make Call Me By Your Name Your Hanukkah Movie This Year Hanukkah is once again upon us, giving me yet another chance to decry the fact that whi ..
Refinery 29
3.0
The Lost City of Z doesnt quite unearth a transporting truth about Percy Fawcett.
The Arts Desk
4.0
Sure it looks utterly incredible and is as epic as it is grand and there is no doubting the massive talent of those involved I just didnt care that mu ..
The Sun
1.5
Historians have long been fascinated by Percy Fawcett, the British explorer who, in 1925, went off on the last of his journeys to the Amazon jungle, n ..
Wsj
4.0
Thrilling and humbling, THE LOST CITY OF Z is a thing of harsh yet enthralling beauty.
Killer Movie Reviews
4.0
Beautifully craft and wonderfully artistic, this film can provide an engaging experience for the thinking audience.
FilmFare
3.8
1 of 11 View Caption This image released by Amazon Studios/Bleecker Street Films shows Tom Holland, center left, and Charlie Hunnam, center left, in a ..
Sltrib
4.4
The heroes are fun, the locations lush in The Lost City of Z Warning: If you and I are on a flight someday in the near future and I see you watching T ..
Chicago Sun Times
3.5
The most recent and best may have been 2015s, a film that earned accolades but little in the terms of audience.
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
Its a Heart of Darkness story, yes, but one thats measured and modest.
Straight
3.5
It is a moody, insightful portrayal of a man beckoned to the harsh Amazon jungle.
Movie Web
1.0
There is an unexploitative, unsensational grounding to the whole affair that lends it dignity, but that doesnt quite justify the 140 minute runtime.
Sandiego Reader
2.0
Percy Fawcett comes across as a man who you would more likely respect and admire than like and feel warm toward, and so is this movie.
Shockya
4.5
The elegant cutting and handsome staging match the pretty pictures, and if the film never quite finds comparable emotional intensity, well, as one cha ..
Flavor Wire
3.8
But it does offer cannibals, shrunken heads and a jungle obsession so feverish, you might swear you stepped into a Werner Herzog movie.
Daily Herald
4.0
Though visually resembling Werner Herzogs Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, with hallucinatory night time jungle scenes recalling Apocalypse ..
The Skinny
4.0
Following a group of teenage girls in Brooklyn over a three year period, All This Panic offers a wonderfully witty and wise documentary portrait of it ..
Scots Man
4.0
It moves along nicely, but it never feels rushed. Rather, it slows just enough for audiences to become seduced by the perilous beauty of the jungle ju ..
No La
2.5
In many ways, it has the opposite effect, numbing you to the wonderful ideas and depths, leaving you with the feeling of a missed opportunity.
Under The Radar Mag
5.0
Its rich without being excessive, beautiful without glossing over the horrors that often befell explorers, and straightforward in picking apart the co ..
The Daily Beast
3.5
But the treatment here, though assured enough, lacks dramatic heft.
The Ooh Tray
3.5
But it must be said, as consumer guidance, that the film offers none of the rousing cheap thrills that might have lured a blockbuster audience.
reason
3.0
Hunnams performance is just good enough to imply an inner life that we can guess at without actually seeing, and the whole thing functions as a pretty ..
Alternate Ending
3.8
The lure of the unknown, of a quest that taxes a man to the utmost, physically and psychologically, is something such men find impossible to resist.
Seattle Times
1.5
But still, its hard not to get a thrill as Fawcett determinedly hacks his way through the brush on his multiple missions, knowing that just because a ..
Film Journal International ..
2.0
Its truly a throwback thats epic in scale, yet sharp with its emotional punch.
Fresh Fiction
4.0
Percy Fawcett is a champion against narrow mindedness, the best kind of old boy.
East Bay Express
4.5
Its look is gorgeously naturalistic, its pace leisurely, its mood verging on trancelike, with moments when the real and surreal effortlessly meld.
Seven Day Svt
4.5
Thats not to say that it doesnt impress as an intimate adventure flick, an exploration of fevered obsession, or as a textured and thoughtful biopic in ..
Concrete Play Ground
4.5
But that setup only hints at what Gray has in mind for this thematically ambitious tale.
New Republic
3.1
It is not a perfect movie, but it is a consistently committed one.
National Post
4.0
All in all, there is much to admire in this throwback to the best of epic Hollywood filmmaking in the 1970s. artslife@thenational.ae
The National
4.0
The deliberate, measured approach might test the patience of those expecting a rollicking old fashioned adventure, but dont be put off.
Sky
4.5
If you dont know how Fawcetts final trip to Amazonia in 1923 turns out, I dont want to ruin it for you here.
Third Coast Review
4.0
Grandiloquent, methodical, and fascinating, the new direction is becoming for Gray, who masterfully conjures a mysterious period of anticipation, when ..
Ion Cinema
1.0
But this is where Grays usual flimsy moody style reveals its cultural and political bias.
National Review
1.0
I make the comparison advisedly, because this strange update on Joseph Conrad is in essence an epic of virtue signaling.
National Review
2.5
Theres some irony in an amazing story lost in a film about an amazing city lost in the jungle.
The New Paper
4.0
If you could grab hold of it, it wouldnt be beautiful!.Part of beauty is its ephemerality.
New City Film
2.0
Even the trees look sad.The Lost City of Z is so jarringly out of step with summer blockbuster season that watching it feels like discovering a relic.
M Tv
3.0
This lavish looking, leisurely told, large scale adventure yarn...contains pretty much everything youd expect: encounters with wild animals, wild huma ..
Tiny Url
3.0
Gray ably conveys the curiosity and wonder of the journeys and the passions that impel the adventurers.
Movie Mom
4.0
But Gray spends as much time exploring the man and his age as he does staging thrilling action scenes.
Daily Star
4.4
Youll be interested in The Lost City of Z only if you enjoy adventure tales, non fiction films or history. And thats a pretty wide audience.
Qc Times
3.5
3 stars (out of 4) The best thing that ever happened to Charlie Hunnams career was the day he dropped out of Fifty Shades of Grey.No matter what he wo ..
Us Magazine
3.0
With Hunnams strong performance and the thoughtful script, were not seeing something no one has seen before, but its a mostly worthy trek all the same ..
Assignment X
3.5
All in all, The Lost City of Z is a magnificent large scale production that lives up to its promise.
Cairo 360
2.5
Fine.But what would be the tangible good of finding such a civilization
Sf Chronicle
4.5
Lost City of Z is a lush and sweeping study of colonization and masculine pride.
Culture
4.5
This is no romantic hagiography about Percy Fawcetts jungle bravery.
Mid West Film Journal
3.8
The Lost City of Z is one of the years most ambitious films, and moviegoing adventurers will make some thought provoking discoveries in this search th ..
Tulsa World
5.0
Grays film is a grand adventure, the sort that uses classic techniques but is never old fashioned.
Washington City Paper
3.5
Percy is an admirable human being and The Lost City of Z does him justice, as well as James Gray creating a visually arresting film and a stunning pie ..
Film Ireland
4.5
But do we need another film about a white mans journey to validate another cultures worth in this day and age The Lost City of Z (as well as The Immig ..
Screen Anarchy
2.5
In the end Z becomes an entertaining travelogue of minor character in history that unfortunately turns back just as the water gets choppy.
Cambridge Day
3.8
Its hero is no wild eyed visionary, but a lost soul in search of legitimacy.
Heral
4.4
In that regard, theres an almost spiritual message embedded in Grays stately, classical work.
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
3.1
BY: Follow @SonnyBunch The Lost City of Z is a throwback to the spirit of cinema past: an epic, wandering, sometimes ponderous adventure through an un ..
Free Beacon
4.5
These days, the movies give us lots of synthetic adventure, including gargantuan comic book creations for a generation of couch potatoes.
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
5.0
In A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote that great artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what ..
Willamette Week
2.0
Technically, this is a badly executed film and very disappointing as an explorer biopic.
Kdhx
4.5
The Lost City of Z is flush with the sort of breathtaking stuff that even the most amazing CGI cant provide. Cinematographer Darius Khondji is the obv ..
Saportare Port
3.1
Shot in black and white with interruptions of strategic color, the movie may be a response to the resurgence of Western fascism and xenophobia (one of ..
Commercial Appeal
2.0
For a grand adventure, theres no grandeur and not a whit of adventure.
3.0
This is defensiblethat sort of thing isnt easy to make cinematic, and the tonal shifts wouldve been hard to pull off.
Splice Today
4.5
Classic cinema in stunning locations with gorgeous cinematography by D.P. Darius Khondji and at times even a little funny.
L.A. Biz
4.5
The Lost City of Z is a stunning piece of cinema, an epic that never travels along the path you expect.
FanboyNation.com
4.0
David Granns best selling book, on which the movie is based, posits a likely solution to the mysteries of the disappearance and of Z. Grays ending is ..
Bbc
3.8
But the movie tosses out everything contrary or ambivalent in David Granns book of the same title only to invent a bit of magic narrative to make it a ..
Buffalo News
4.5
It gives this handsomely produced film a bit of extra depth, even as it rather dutifully marches through Fawcetts life and times.
Pgh City Paper
4.5
Percy Fawcetts persistence to follow his obsession continually tests his endurance and resolve. Its worth investing the 2 hour and 20 minutes to find ..
Movies and Shakers
3.8
Movie adaptations of books can be divided into two categories: Those that are more likely to appeal to readers of the book and those that are more apt ..
Twin Cities
4.0
A beautiful, stately, overlong film about obsession and escape, against an epic backdrop. Hunnam is impressively consumed as explorer Fawcett; Miller ..
Caution Spoilers
2.5
The appealing messiness of the characters ultimately matters far more than the overly neat generational scheme.
The Nation
2.5
It is a bit of a shame though, given that the film has such extraordinary visuals.
The Blus Pot
2.5
Its a time in history not worth repeating, but it is worth knowing.This is where the film shines: in its history and its portrayal of relationships.
Daily Journal
5.0
Its rare that one walks out of a 144 minute movie wishing it had been a lot longer. But The Lost City of Z is just that kind of movie, a rich adventur ..
Host Madison
4.5
James Grays adaptation of British explorer Percival Fawcetts remarkable true story is almost as romantic as it gets.
The Movie Minute
4.5
That the meetings of geographical societies used to be such animated affairs is one of the revelations of James Grays film. Another revelation is that ..
Memphis Flyer
3.5
Gray (to construct a second cultural stereotype) is the director of gritty films set in a different jungle, the urban hopelessness of New York City, w ..
Ex Press
4.0
A family drama whose guiding themes are sacrifice and abandonment of loved ones, rather than survival in the jungle.
1.5
The film ... is too scattershot in its approach to have much impact.
Daily Public
4.5
A Quiet Passion Cynthia Nixon is an absolute marvel in Terence Davies must see biopicone of my favorites of the yearportraying Emily Dickinson.
Bk Mag
4.5
An epic and classic story that bets on narrative classicism done with mastery.
5.0
Its not an action film, but it certainly has more action than most dramas.
Lagniappe Mobile
4.5
It takes us deep into the unimaginable and gives it depth and context; and, in the process, what began as a simple adventure gains melancholy and capa ..
4.5
The film is rich with this passionate intensity, which is exactly what a man needs to put together a big film in his late forties while the clock is t ..
Ny Books
4.0
There is nothing remotely funny about two senseless wars (Vietnam, Iraq) killing, maiming and destroying precious lives on all sides.
James Wegg Review
5.0
If theres a movie so far this year you need to see on the big screen, its this one.Its rich story, performances, and lush visuals should be taken in a ..
Business Insider
4.0
A lot of this pleasant nostalgia comes from Darius Khondjis evocative and gloriously lit photography.
4.0
James Gray is a director you can count on to give you just the right amount of beauty and substance.
The Lonely Film Critic
5.0
Instead, Grays sweeping film beautifully contemplates intimate struggles to understand what cannot be seen.For Percy, its imagining the possibility an ..
Sd City Beat
4.5
Confused thematically but cinematically impressive. A study of obsession evocative of Herzogs Aguirre, Wrath of God but based on British rather than S ..
Louis Proyect
3.0
More a biopic by numbers than an epic adventure, The Lost City of Z is an entertaining enough.
Dogandwolf
1.5
It is a sort of reminder that amidst the general sameness of life, theres always something more worth striving for.
Stabroek News
3.5
by RON WILKINSON Hardly the swashbuckling story on might expect, Z focuses on the life and motivations of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunn ..
Its Just Movies
4.0
Painterly and haunting, The Lost City of Z is both beautiful and rewarding to behold.
2.0
...an adventure story with no adventure, a heroic tale with no hero, and a very long afternoon at the movies without nearly enough in the way of a pay ..
Playback:stl
4.5
The Lost City of Z is richly layered. It speaks volumes not just about the distant past and its supposedly ancient norms and modes. It also bears the ..
4.4
Still, this is an impressive piece of old fashioned filmmaking that powerfully explores mans need to conquer, not simply his surroundings but any demo ..
News Gazette
3.5
This is both more and less of a departure for Gray than it might seem.
Reverse Shot
5.0
The Lost City of Z uses classic cinematic style, but puts a modern spin on a classic adventure story, with a white hero who has no desire to conquer t ..
S Fist
4.0
Regardless of whether or not The Lost City of Z provides the answers its pursuers seek, the journey to find Z provides enough meditations for a lifeti ..
4.5
An ideosyncrasy piece that surpasses the classic Hollywood experience without abandoning it entirely.
El Universal
4.5
It is a struggle to stay engaged in the modern world when it feels like humanity is determined to tear itself apart.
Sojo
4.5
His film is sober, almost devoid of melodramatic accents, but not flat and bland.
4.4
Adam McKays Dick Cheney biopic Vice seized control of the Golden Globe Awards with a leading six nominations, edging Bradley Coopers revival of A Star ..
News Observer
4.0
Charlie Hunnam is impressive here as a soulful and complex protagonist, which proves that hes much more than a brute hunk.
FlixChatter Film Blog
2.0
It may be a way to redeem Britains whole colonial project or finally treat native people on human terms.
Gay City News
1.5
The Lost City of Z may, like early films by Gray, leave some thirsting for more swashbuckling adventure. But if you let the ebb and flow of the Fawcet ..
Ap
5.0
It incites intrigue regarding the unknown, but isnt arrogant in its search for it.
Rogues Portal
1.5
While it didnt exactly make me feel anything, Im confident that for others, the elements are there to be felt.
Missoula News
4.5
starts off underwater, but by the end its breathing sweet, sweet air. Its redemption comes when we realize that the story isnt about Amazonian explora ..
Review Film Review
3.8
Yes, its an entertaining product, very well acted and impeccably filmed, but having read the source material, I cant help but think that it could have ..
4.5
Grays direction switches from tight close ups on sweaty, dirty faces to wide vistas of expanding, inviting yet dangerous jungle.Its one hell of a good ..
Cut Print Film
4.0
This may sound like damning with faint praise, but Charlie Hunnam delivers a career best performance portraying this character, even though in the fil ..
Cut Print Film
5.0
A calculated and wise attempt to recover the primeval taste of a cinema as a builder of lost worlds.
El Mundo (Spain)
1.5
Instead of painting a dapper Indiana Jonesian picture of a valiant white man making friends with the natives and conquering the jungle, it shows Fawce ..
Channel 24
4.5
Then of course, when Percy and Jack dont return, shes the one who keeps the hope that theyre still alive.
4.0
SHAWN Thats because the filmmakers constantly interrupt the action to force the love triangle plot that doesnt work.
Fox 4 Kansas City
2.0
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