The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Critic Reviews
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Total Film James Mottram
With a wraparound narrative that never really strikes a balance between past and present, all that axe-flinging, ice-casting action makes a modest impact.
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55
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TheWrap
If all else fails, at least it's a movie smart enough to know that, frankly, you can't beat Charlize Theron, covered in gold, shooting lethal spiky tentacles out of her midriff.
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Screen International Fionnuala Halligan
If judged by fluid effects work, Atwood's stunning costumes, and the fun of watching Theron and Blunt reach new heights of arch camp, The Huntsman: Winter's War is a triumph. By any other measure, though, it's a far more qualified prospect
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50
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The Hollywood Reporter Leslie Felperin
It's passably entertaining, and like the last one breathtakingly crafted, especially Colleen Atwood's microscopically detailed costumes.
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42
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The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton
There's very little in The Huntsman: Winter's War itself that is actively bad. Compared to some of its blockbuster rivals, it's reasonably watchable, never offensive, and mostly coherent.
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40
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Empire
Visual inventiveness and spectacular casting can't quite salvage a muddled fantasy epic that, if it were a magic mirror, would be held together with gaffer tape.
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40
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CineVue Joe Walsh
In many ways this is an adult Frozen with Gothic sensibilities by way of The Lord Of The Rings, making for a derivative pastiche of the past two decades' cinematic fantasy offerings.
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Time Out London Cath Clarke
All told, 'Winter's War' is not the fairest sequel, but it's not so terrible that it deserves to be taken out to the forest and finished off.
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30
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Variety Guy Lodge
The sheer abundance of on-screen ornamentation isn't quite enough to make The Huntsman: Winter's War a beautiful film.... Still, it's one that has been exhaustively designed by many hands - which only further shows up its inelegant patchwork in the writing department.
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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw
It really is a nuclear war of dullness.
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