<P> Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said, "The Lara Croft reboot Tomb Raider isn't half bad for an hour . Then there's another hour . That hour is quite bad . It's no fun watching your action heroine get shoved, punched and kicked to the sidelines of her own movie, while the menfolk take over and take turns overacting before expiring ." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review, criticizing the story but praising Vikander, and writing, "When all the one - dimensional supporting characters and familiar action moves fall by the wayside, the one thing left standing is Vikander...The film strains credulity even for a vid - game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover awfully quickly from bad injuries, but other than that Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable ." Matt Bobkin of Exclaim! gave the film a 5 out of 10 score, writing "Tomb Raider is at its best when delivering mindless action, but don't bother trying to glean any sort of deeper, subversive meaning ." </P> <P> Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised the film, saying that "The exciting surprise of the new Tomb Raider, directed by the Norwegian genre specialist Roar Uthaug, is that it doesn't tamp down Vikander's inner flame, or the three - dimensionality of her talent; it doesn't fold and insert her into an overly gymnastic and CGI - happy thrill ride . The movie is full of vine - swinging, bow - and - arrow - shooting, ancient - spirit - meeting action, but most of it is staged on a convincing human scale, one that's been expertly tailored to its star's understated directness ." </P> <P> Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, and said, "this is a beautifully crafted and unpretentious piece of action cinema, with a number of sequences that are as gorgeous as they are thrilling, and a female hero who's as elegant as she is deadly: an ass - kicking Audrey Hepburn ." </P> <P> Retrospectively, some critics have argued that Tomb Raider was overly scrutinised by press compared to similar films in the same genre . Editor in Large of IndieWire Anne Thompson theorised on Twitter that it wasn't marketed enough to smart women . Thompson also wrote that Tomb Raider "was a well - mounted, intelligently wrought adventure, more grounded in the real world than its fantasy predecessors ." and that "it establishes the action bonafides of both Vikander and director Roar Uthaug" </P>

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