Tomb Raider (film): Difference between revisions

Owen Gleiberman of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' praised the film, saying that "The exciting surprise of the new ''Tomb Raider'', directed by the Norwegian genre specialist Roar Uthaug, is that it doesn’t tamp down Vikander’s inner flame, or the three-dimensionality of her talent; it doesn’t fold and insert her into an overly gymnastic and CGI-happy thrill ride. The movie is full of vine-swinging, bow-and-arrow-shooting, ancient-spirit-meeting action, but most of it is staged on a convincing human scale, one that’s been expertly tailored to its star’s understated directness."<ref>{{cite web |date= March 14, 2018 |last= Gleiberman |first= Owen |author-link= Owen Gleiberman |title= Film Review: 'Tomb Raider' |url= https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/tomb-raider-review-alicia-vikander-1202722123/ |website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |publisher= [[Penske Business Media]] |access-date= April 6, 2018 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180407115830/https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/tomb-raider-review-alicia-vikander-1202722123/ |archive-date= April 7, 2018 }}</ref> Matt Zoller Seitz of [[Roger Ebert|RogerEbert.com]] gave the film three out of four stars and said, "this is a beautifully crafted and unpretentious piece of action cinema, with several sequences that are as gorgeous as they are thrilling, and a female hero who's as elegant as she is deadly: an ass-kicking [[Audrey Hepburn]]."<ref>{{cite web |last= Zoller Seitz |first= Matt |title= Tomb Raider Movie Review and Summary |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tomb-raider-2018 |website= RogerEbert.com |publisher= Ebert Digital LLC |access-date= April 6, 2018 |date= March 16, 2018 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180318094022/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tomb-raider-2018 |archive-date= March 18, 2018 }}</ref> [[IndieWire]]'s [[Anne Thompson (film critic)|Anne Thompson]] wrote that Tomb Raider "was a well-mounted, intelligently wrought adventure, more grounded in the real world than its fantasy predecessors" and that "it establishes the action bonafides of both Vikander and director Roar Uthaug."<ref>{{cite web |last= Thompson |first= Anne |title= 'Tomb Raider' Isn't a Hit, but Alicia Vikander and Her Director Come Out Ahead |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/tomb-raider-alicia-vikander-tweener-box-office-1201942444/ |website=[[IndieWire]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614171603/http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/tomb-raider-alicia-vikander-tweener-box-office-1201942444/ |archive-date=2018-06-14 |date=2018-03-26 }}</ref>

 

At the [[2018 Teen Choice Awards]], the film received nominations for "Choice Action Movie" and Alicia Vikander as "Choice Action Movie Actress", but lost both to ''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]'' and [[Scarlett Johansson]] as [[Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Black Widow]] in ''Avengers: Infinity War'', respectively.<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Douglas |first= Esme |title= Teen Choice Awards 2018: See the full list of winners |url= https://ew.com/awards/2018/08/12/teen-choice-awards-winners-list/ |magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180813151232/https://ew.com/awards/2018/08/12/teen-choice-awards-winners-list/ |archive-date= August 13, 2018 |access-date= August 13, 2018 }}</ref>