Carter Stevens’s review published on Letterboxd:
I’m gonna get the positives out of the way first.
The visuals are amazing. Almost every shot looks like painting. Some scenes are so fantastic looking, I was thinking about how good they would look as a wallpapers while I was watching.
The score is great, and elevates the visuals in a way that reminds me of Interstellar, which is a film I think has the best score of time, so that’s high praise.
The acting of some character is really good. This includes Dave Bautista, and Austin Butler, who is especially good in this. In my opinion the scenes with him in it are the best in movie.
That concludes my positives.
Negatives are that the pacing is shit, and scenes that are literally useless take forever, while huge plot developments just happen with a cut. This takes the weight away from things that should be huge.
The acting from Timmy and Zendaya just doesn’t do it for me. I feel little chemistry between them, and their scenes dragged the longest. Also Chalamet just does not come across that intense when he talks.
And not to spoil the movie, but the ending annoys me a lot.
All in all, it does what it wants to do well, but all the in between stuff is mid.