"The familiarity is the point with Red One, which might as well have been engineered to run in loops on cable, if that were still a thing. It's a new movie that's meant to feel like something you've already seen, like, I dunno, Jingle All the Way if the villain in Jingle All the Way were a Christmas witch played by Kiernan Shipka. The only surprising thing about it is that it reportedly cost $250 million, with details of its troubled production, up to and including bottles of A-lister piss, recounted entertainingly by the Wrap. There's no real indication of the massiveness of that sum onscreen, which is enough to make you pine for the day when infamously bloated budgets were the result of scenes involving thousands of extras or sets knocked down and rebuilt to fit a director's demanding vision." - Alison Willmore, Vulture
"This is a film that aims for mythological intrigue and rollicking adventure but lands more often in lead-footed bloat, suitably accompanied by Henry Jackman's hyperventilating score. It's always busy but seldom fun. The fantasy environments have all the appeal of the center-of-the-earth fairy kingdom in Kenneth Branagh's instantly forgotten Artemis Fowl. Non-human North Pole workers like talking penguins and a burly polar bear - none of which are ever at risk of being mistaken for real animals - add minimal amusement." - David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
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