The Matrix Resurrections

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Wachowski has taken the familiar and modified it in such a way to make it seem new. It’s a brilliant act of transformation.”

  Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times · 100

• “Reeves and Moss are magnificent at resurrecting Neo and Trinity, and they blend exquisitely into Lana Wachowski’s matured style of filmmaking.”

  Lillian Crawford, Little White Lies · 100

• “Wachowski’s gamble is that viewers will enjoy a film that’s heavy on philosophizing and introspection as long as it retains the emotional, romantic hook that powered the first movie. Reeves and Moss sell their reunion as Neo and Trinity persuasively, glowing with the overwhelming chemistry and affection that Wachowski needed to push the film beyond cynicism.”

  David Sims, The Atlantic · 95

• “It’s an agitprop romance, one of the most effective mass media diagnoses of the current moment that finds countless things to be angry about, and proposes fighting them all with radical, reckless love. On top of all that, it is also a kick-ass work of sci-fi action — propulsive, gorgeous, and yet still intimate — that revisits the familiar to show audiences something very new.”

  Joshua Rivera, Polygon · 95

• “If Spider-Man: No Way Home is the poison, this is its antidote.”

  David Ehrlich, IndieWire · 91