Atomic Blonde

Without Charlize Theron, the spy adventure "Atomic Blonde" would only be clever.

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Star turns Cold-War Berlin into a one-woman Fury Road as a spy tracking down a missing double-agent list.

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The director of John Wick takes Theron through a spy thriller that finally puts her square in the spotlight.

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Atomic Blonde is a new-wave action rehash made better by Charlize Theron's steely spy game and David Leitch's radiating style.

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Charlize Theron tries to save MI6 while the Berlin Wall crumbles behind her in David Leitch's action-heavy spy flick.

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Then afterwards you hope that someone takes notice and casts Theron alongside Keanu Reeves for a third time in the third chapter of “John Wick.”

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It's a shame, because Atomic Blonde is a visual cinematic delight. It's not that it's all style, no substance. But it doesn't seem to know what to do with its substance, and ultimately, Atomic Blonde becomes a film that's all dressed up with just nowhere to go.

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Charlize Theron cuts a bloody swath through 1989 Berlin in this technically-dazzling yet fundamentally empty action pic.

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The film strains to achieve a breathless panache and a lurid swagger for which David Leitch’s direction is too heavy-footed and literal.

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The heavy foregrounding is also in keeping with the two-dimensional look of a graphic novel.

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David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde frequently loses sight of its own action to glibly pay homage to other works.

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