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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

2024

Gil Kenan

Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace ...

5.2

3,291

Fantasy. Comedy After the events in Oklahoma, the Ghostbusters team returns to where it all started; New York City! The Spengler family story continues with a new group of Ghostbusters led by Winston Zeddemore and Ray Stantz.

	Media	Author	Review
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"This franchise might not be entirely dead just yet, but its latest resurrection doesn’t make nearly enough good arguments to keep pumping life into it."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Despite some decent gags there’s very little life left in the tired franchise – it feels like it’s run its course and it’s time to think of something new (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"'Frozen Empire' rolls out a new supernatural big bad and more horror than the series has done in the past, yet it still often struggles to find freshness and recapture old magic. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"It’s so confused by its own lore, by its incessant callbacks to the past and by its uncertainty around how to address the present that it unfolds as a series of loosely connected 'Ghostbusters'-themed sequences rather (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"[It] feels closer to a proper 'Ghostbusters' film than any other sequel (...) [It] raises the frustrating suspicion that Kenan and Reitman couldn't choose which of their various story ideas to use, and so decided to use them all (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alex Godfrey Empire	"There was potential here, but 'Frozen Empire' is an overpopulated mish-mash, with too many heroes to wrangle. What’s left is a bit of a gooey mess. We’ve been slimed. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"Director Gil Kenan's film does a vaguely better job of balancing the old and the new than its predecessor, 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"It’s officially time to stop calling the 'Ghostbusters'"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A bigger, rowdier and (slightly) funnier fan-service grab bag than ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife (...) You might say that “Frozen Empire” has to work even harder to invent a reason for itself to exist.’"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire tries hard, very hard, to satisfy the series’ fans with plenty of nostalgic throwbacks and mainly succeeds. (...) So the fact that this installment manages to be as much fun as it is represents a minor triumph"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The clumsy mixture of nostalgia, scares, set pieces, sincerity and wisecracks never gels, tempting a conclusion that it is perhaps time for Sony to give up this particular ghost."
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"[It] offers familiar set pieces, callbacks, and references aplenty, but the nostalgia tank is now running on empty (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This commercially-desperate addition to the franchise has none of the 1989 original’s hedonistic charm –and almost no ghost-busting (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Rachel Labonte Screen Rant	"'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' has a lot of potential and a chilling new villain, but too many characters and a slower plot leads to dimmed thrills."
		Nick Levine NME	"Nostalgic return to the old neighbourhood (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tom Jorgensen IGN	"The franchise should be put in cold storage until someone can figure out how to do justice to the central concept without Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, and Potts dropping by to prevent mass hysteria."
		Joe George Den of Geek	"The overstuffed script threatens to suffocate any of the main character arcs, leaving only Phoebe’s intact. But it wisely makes room for some whiz-bang action sequences
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"'Frozen Empire' attempts to evoke the past with constant callbacks, while trying to make the audience care about a more modern story with characters for a new generation, and ends up failing on both counts."
		Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"A serviceable franchise entry that tugs on '80s nostalgia"
		Drew Tinnin Dread Central	"The result is a moderately fun action adventure that weaponizes nostalgia. Yet somehow, the film decides to underutilize its cast (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Odie Henderson Boston Globe	"[Aykroyd is] enough to make you want to see the actor make 'Ghostbusters' movies forever —so long as they're better than 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jack Riedy Chicago Reader	"[It] is built on nostalgia and a stacked cast, but not enough to make it worth watching"
		Justin Clark Slant	"There are protracted moments of humor, fright, and pathos in, but as it's all so scattershot and disconnected, the film ends up being defined by its lack of conviction when it comes to exploring its ideas to the fullest (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"The best I can say about 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' is, it’s not the worst. That would be 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife'."
		Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Full of glorious nostalgia and all-round wonderful entertainment. A solid addition to the franchise (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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