Movie Review: 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Puts a Wobbly Franchise Back on Track with Superb Installment

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ review: Another embarrassing dino retread

The audience is positively fossilized by the end of the seventh movie: “Jurassic World Regurgitation.” Sorry. “Rebirth.” It’s “Rebirth.”

Movie Review: 'Jurassic World Rebirth' puts a wobbly franchise back on track with superb installment

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Jurassic World Rebirth review – Scarlett Johansson runs show as near-extinct franchise roars back to life

The latest instalment marks a return to form after some recent duds, with all the expected Spielberg-style set pieces and excellent romantic chemistry between the leadsWhat a comeback. The Jurassic World film series had looked to be pretty much extinct after some increasingly dire dollops of franchise content: Fallen Kingdom in 2018 and Dominion in 2022. But now, against all odds, these dinosaurs have had a brand refresh: a brighter, breezier, f…

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Review: After Evolving in the Wrong Direction for a Decade, the Dino Franchise Returns to Its Origins

A million years ago, in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” unleashed two menaces on the planet. The first, of course, was dinosaurs, as the movie warned would-be genetican engineers the consequences of playing God. Far more upsetting, however, was the explosion of computer-generated visual effects, which have been abused and misused in nearly every way […]

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Review: For the Love of God, Can Something Please Kill All the Dinosaurs Again

The “Jurassic” franchise has long become a lot like the bioengineered mutant dinosaur — amusingly dubbed “Distortus Rex” — that escapes from an InGen research facility in the series’ loud nap of a new installment: Pointless to keep alive but impossible to kill.  The mere existence of Gareth Edwards’ “Jurassic World: Rebirth” would have been enough to clarify that condition, and yet this back-to-basics standalone — arriving just a few summers aft…

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Tries to Revive Something Best Left Dead. We Don’t Mean the Dinosaurs

You remember the original Jurassic Park, right? The blockbuster that crawled out of the primordial ooze of 1993, signaled that Steven “I Made Jaws” Spielberg could still turn a beach-read paperback into box-office gold, and gave the Tyrannosaurus Rex his biggest P.R. boost in 66,000,000 years? Of course you do. Its particular blend of something old (dinosaurs), something new (bleeding-edge CGI), something borrowed (a very familiar plot), and s…