The Matrix Resurrections | 2021
Updated December 22, 2022
Critical Consensus
Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle
David Sims | The Atlantic
David Ehrlich | IndieWire
Joshua Rothkopf | Entertainment Weekly
Simran Hans | The Observer
Richard Trenholm | CNET
Dana Stevens | Slate
Richard Whittaker | Austin Chronicle
Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times
Nick Allen | RogerEbert.com
Richard Brody | The New Yorker
Donald Clarke | The Irish Times
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian
Brian Lowry | CNN
Johnny Oleksinski | New York Post
David Sims | The Atlantic
David Ehrlich | IndieWire
Joshua Rothkopf | Entertainment Weekly
Simran Hans | The Observer
Richard Trenholm | CNET
Dana Stevens | Slate
Richard Whittaker | Austin Chronicle
Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times
Nick Allen | RogerEbert.com
Richard Brody | The New Yorker
Donald Clarke | The Irish Times
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian
Brian Lowry | CNN
Johnny Oleksinski | New York Post
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Summary & Info
In this fourth sequel, Neo (Keanu Reeves) does not remember the war between humanity and the machines that took place earlier, yet continues yearning for Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and doubting his sanity. To deal with anxiety he sees a therapist (Neil Patrick Harris), who may be connected to different realities. Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Jada Pinkett Smith and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Director: Lana Wachowski. [2:28 – R]
Dueling Critics
“The key thing is that ‘Resurrections’ is enjoyable in its impenetrability. In every scene — not at every moment, but in every scene without fail — there’s some wildly imaginative touch, some odd creation, some strange action that you would never expect to see.”
“[A] descent not so much into Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s ever-fascinating dystopian reality as our own madness…aimless, vocabulary-filled, talky tedium…The fourth flick looks dollar-store cheap and during the battles, you’ll wish you were watching ‘John Wick’ instead.”
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The Matrix Resurrections | 2022
Updated December 22, 2022
Critical Consensus
Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle
David Sims | The Atlantic
David Ehrlich | IndieWire
Joshua Rothkopf | Entertainment Weekly
Simran Hans | The Observer
Richard Trenholm | CNET
Dana Stevens | Slate
Richard Whittaker | Austin Chronicle
Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times
Nick Allen | RogerEbert.com
Richard Brody | The New Yorker
Donald Clarke | The Irish Times
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian
Brian Lowry | CNN
Johnny Oleksinski | New York Post
David Sims | The Atlantic
David Ehrlich | IndieWire
Joshua Rothkopf | Entertainment Weekly
Simran Hans | The Observer
Richard Trenholm | CNET
Dana Stevens | Slate
Richard Whittaker | Austin Chronicle
Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times
Nick Allen | RogerEbert.com
Richard Brody | The New Yorker
Donald Clarke | The Irish Times
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian
Brian Lowry | CNN
Johnny Oleksinski | New York Post
Fix a critic’s review
Dueling Critics
“The key thing is that ‘Resurrections’ is enjoyable in its impenetrability. In every scene — not at every moment, but in every scene without fail — there’s some wildly imaginative touch, some odd creation, some strange action that you would never expect to see.”
“[A] descent not so much into Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s ever-fascinating dystopian reality as our own madness…aimless, vocabulary-filled, talky tedium…The fourth flick looks dollar-store cheap and during the battles, you’ll wish you were watching ‘John Wick’ instead.”
Summary & Info
In this fourth sequel, Neo (Keanu Reeves) does not remember the war between humanity and the machines that took place earlier, yet continues yearning for Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and doubting his sanity. To deal with anxiety he sees a therapist (Neil Patrick Harris), who may be connected to different realities. Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Jada Pinkett Smith and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Director: Lana Wachowski. [2:28 – R]