Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
What critics thought
Critics broadly enjoyed the film's breezy, good-natured tone and its surprisingly faithful translation of what it actually feels like to sit around a D&D table, though a notable minority felt the comedy misfired and the characters were too thinly drawn to fully deliver on the premise. The cast won wide praise, but whether the ensemble's energy ever coheres into something genuinely special was a real point of dispute.
“the script does a solid job of making it an accessible world to those not already steeped in it although Goldstein and Daley, writing alongside Michael Gilio, are less effective with the film's many attempts at comedy. It's a shame as the cast are game and Pine and Rodriguez have a fizzy platonic chemistry but it's just never as funny as it should be despite ample set-ups”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves feels like Daley and Goldstein, who also co-wrote with Michael Gilio, asked ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI: 'Write a Marvel movie except with Dungeons & Dragons characters.' Seconds later, this spit out.”
G. Allen Johnson·San Francisco Chronicle
“the goal is to capture an experience rather than a specific story—and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves delightfully nails the fun of role-playing as fantasy characters with your friends”
Christian Holub·Entertainment Weekly
“the film is stuffed with all manner of mythology and moves at frenzied pace, sometimes wobbling in its speed and density but usually regaining control just before things topple into irksome incoherence”
Vanity Fair
“the film's plot is purely, ruthlessly episodic—it comes down to a series of fetch quests [...]. But to complain about the number of fetch quests in a D&D film would be like complaining that a movie about Scrabble features too much spelling”
Glen Weldon·NPR
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Jonathan GoldsteinDirector
John Francis DaleyDirector
Chris PineEdgin
Michelle RodriguezHolga
Justice SmithSimon
Sophia LillisDoric
Hugh GrantForge
Regé-Jean PageXenk
Chloe ColemanKira
Daisy HeadSofina
Kyle HixonGuard
Spencer WildingGorg
Will IrvineTobias
Nicholas BlaneChancellor Anderton
Lorne BalfeComposer
Michael GilioWriter
Chris McKayWriter
Barry PetersonCinematographyDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
What critics thought
Critics broadly enjoyed the film's breezy, good-natured tone and its surprisingly faithful translation of what it actually feels like to sit around a D&D table, though a notable minority felt the comedy misfired and the characters were too thinly drawn to fully deliver on the premise. The cast won wide praise, but whether the ensemble's energy ever coheres into something genuinely special was a real point of dispute.
“the script does a solid job of making it an accessible world to those not already steeped in it although Goldstein and Daley, writing alongside Michael Gilio, are less effective with the film's many attempts at comedy. It's a shame as the cast are game and Pine and Rodriguez have a fizzy platonic chemistry but it's just never as funny as it should be despite ample set-ups”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves feels like Daley and Goldstein, who also co-wrote with Michael Gilio, asked ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI: 'Write a Marvel movie except with Dungeons & Dragons characters.' Seconds later, this spit out.”
G. Allen Johnson·San Francisco Chronicle
“the goal is to capture an experience rather than a specific story—and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves delightfully nails the fun of role-playing as fantasy characters with your friends”
Christian Holub·Entertainment Weekly
“the film is stuffed with all manner of mythology and moves at frenzied pace, sometimes wobbling in its speed and density but usually regaining control just before things topple into irksome incoherence”
Vanity Fair
“the film's plot is purely, ruthlessly episodic—it comes down to a series of fetch quests [...]. But to complain about the number of fetch quests in a D&D film would be like complaining that a movie about Scrabble features too much spelling”
Glen Weldon·NPR
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Jonathan GoldsteinDirectorJohn Francis DaleyDirectorChris PineEdginMichelle RodriguezHolgaJustice SmithSimonSophia LillisDoricHugh GrantForgeRegé-Jean PageXenkChloe ColemanKiraDaisy HeadSofinaKyle HixonGuardSpencer WildingGorgWill IrvineTobiasNicholas BlaneChancellor AndertonLorne BalfeComposerMichael GilioWriterChris McKayWriterBarry PetersonCinematographyStream
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