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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 23

  Imagine if someone projected an entire decade’s worth of sci-fi space epics on the same screen, at the same time. Imagine you were in the audience for that event. Now imagine, for some insane reason, you decided to pre-game for the experience by eating an entire bag full of mushrooms that had been garnished with a fine layer of France’s best crystal meth. That, more or less, is what it feels like to watch Luc Besson’s delirious “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” an independently financed $200 million intergalactic adventure so high on its own supply that it makes makes “Guardians of the Galaxy” look like an Ozu film (and not even one of those later Ozu films…

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 15

  During the chase scene in which Valerian is simultaneously in two dimensions at once, there's a single shot in which he crashes through five floors, each one with a totally different aesthetic

  I gotta applaud that

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  Review by Evan ★★★★½ 27

  *Disclaimer* once you all see this a lot of you will probably think I'm an absolute madman :P

  Space operas are my fucking bread & butter.

  Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets feels like it was made specifically for me. This movie is so far up my alley it's not even funny. Luc Besson created this immersive and beautiful world that I never wanted to leave. It is easily the most bonkers film I've seen. There's truly no other movie quite like it. I'm still in awe of what I just saw. A fantasy science fiction epic for the ages. It's a totally new and refreshing experience that I ate up like a fucking meal from one of Gordan…

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  Review by Lucy ★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  it's brilliant sci fi in it's world building and overall concepts, but by the time rihanna does her shape shifting male fantasy strip show i had already realized that it's unfortunately a corny, uninteresting and incoherent mess. what a shame

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★ 7

  Definition of too much bullshit

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  Review by stevie ★½ 1

  This was like if Baz Luhrmann directed Star Wars: Episode I as a Disney Channel original movie with a surprising amount of misogyny

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 11

  A wonderful, dizzying, gleefully silly utopian vision from a director who just cannot abide a boring action sequence. A movie I am doomed to watch a hundred more times and discover something new on every viewing. And yes, a film I am sure will be deeply polarizing, with mannered performances and oft-clunky dialogue that will keep a lot of the audience at arm's length. Just means I'm gonna have to yell louder about how good it is.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 1

  when rihanna straight up embarrasses every other actor in your movie...

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  Review by doinkdedoink ★½

  fellas is it gay for a boy to flirt with a girl when the boy has the soul of a woman inside him

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  Review by sydney ★★★ 7

  i knew when it was announced that the female lead's name would be dropped from the movie title that we were in trouble. i had no high hopes in that department, expecting laureline to be not much more than a damsel or a swooning faux-badass, and that is essentially what she is. what surprised me was that the failure isn't in the way her character is written, but in the way valerian is played. yes, it's yet another han solo+leia monogamous hetero-fest with a dopey womanzier and the tough broad who inexplicably falls all over herself for him. but star wars worked because harrison ford is like a gorgeous swaggering mountain lion, everybody wants to fuck han solo, even the…

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  Review by Jenny Nulf ★★ 2

  I wanted to watch the movie Ethan Hawke thought he was in.

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★

  There are multiple movies inside this movie that are more interesting and engaging than what Valerian has to offer. Too bad we do not get to see the diplomatic film that echoes Star Trek or the personal tale of a shape shifter done wrong by a capitalist system that forces her to user her body to survive or the smugglers, gay pimps and drag queens who frequent the seedier underbelly of this movie. Instead, we get a rather formulaic tale of a man and woman fighting for what's right while falling in love despite looking like brother and sister.