Director Matthew Vaughn's latest film, "Argylle," has arrived — and critics aren't loving it.
The action movie stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway, an introverted spy novelist who spends her evenings working on her successful book series, also called Argylle, with her cat Alfie by her side. But when her seemingly fictional novels about Agent Argylle (played by Henry Cavill) start predicting real-life events, she becomes the target of a covert spy organization called The Divison. Along the way, the identity of the real Agent Argylle is revealed in one of the film's many plot twists.
The film also includes a star-studded cast comprised of John Cena, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston, Ariana DeBose, and more.
At the time of this article's publication, "Argylle" has a critics score of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes — a far cry from the 60% required to be deemed "fresh" on the review-aggregation site.
Critics are calling the movie "unbearably smug" and "an exceedingly hollow 139-minute feature film." Here's a rundown of the reviews.