Chucky from the "Child's Play" movies shares the screen with The Iron Giant and the DeLorean from "Back to the Future." A thrilling auto race through the virtual "Ready Player One" is at once familiar in its fabric and forward-thinking in its technology, with a combination of gritty live action and glossy CGI. But the people have found salvation in the OASI. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box.

Chris Stuckmann reviews Ready Player One, starring Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke. Olivia Cooke shares her Watchlist and runs through a gauntlet of questions about the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Ready Player One.

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Ready Player One is a lot of fun, but it also feels like the end of something. Now that Spielberg is filming his own fanfic, maybe postmodernism has reached its final form. It's 'dazzling stuff' writes Nicholas Barber. Steven Spielberg's hectic sci-fi action-adventure, Ready Player One, is set half in the real world and half in virtual reality, so it's not surprising that two of its characters should. Ready Player One is as cheesy as the movies, games, and cartoons it directly references. This review is based on an advanced screening in Los Angeles.

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Ready Player One Review: Spielberg Goes Back to the Future Past. An impressive work of technical showmanship, Ready Player One nevertheless falls The film struggles in the same way that those movies did too, even as it attempts to infuse its pop literary source material and shiny visuals with a. Steven Spielberg's movie of Ernest Cline's seminal gamer novel, Ready Player One, is a lively and agreeable work of fanboy art — a first-rate film fashioned from secondhand materials.

If that sounds like a typical hero's name in a comic book adventure, well, that's exactly why his dad picked it. To save a VR realm from the threat of a corporate villain and his army, underprivileged teenager Wade Watts (Sheridan) must discover three keys hidden somewhere in the computer-generated world. Steven Spielberg has turned Ernest Cline's novel into a virtual-reality fanboy geek-out Spielberg, when he got up on stage to introduce "Ready Player One" at the film's SXSW premiere, made a point of insisting that it wasn't a film — he said it was very much a movie. Ready Player One Review: A fun popcorn flick and a great free-for-all of pop culture that only someone with Steven Spielberg's muscle could pull together.