Action Fans Will Drool Over Atomic Blonde

An MI6 spy travels to 1989 Berlin to track down a list naming every undercover agent in the city in David Leitch's Atomic Blonde, based on the graphic novel series The Coldest City by Antony Johnston, Sam Hart, and Steven Perkins. Violence, sex, and more violence ensues. Here's what critics are saying:

  • Cliches "are milked endlessly" and there's a sexual relationship that seems to exist "for no other reason than spicing things up with some hot girl-on-girl action." But that can all be overlooked thanks to the "stone-cold badass" that is Charlize Theron, writes Peter Travers at Rolling Stone. The film's star, "who did most of her own martial-arts stunts, is pure bruising poetry in motion.
  • Atomic Blonde is "the wildest, grittiest action film in years; a retro-cool nostalgia trip; and a fresh blast of originality in a summer of stultified Hollywood franchises," writes Rafer Guzmán at Newsday. It not only "breathes new life into old tropes," but delivers "one breathtaking action scene after another," kicking off "a cinematic blast that may resonate for years to come," he writes.




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