Bryce Dallas Howard appeared in good spirits during an outing in New York City on Wednesday, despite her film Argylle being shredded by critics.
The 42-year-old Jurassic Park alum looked like a ray of sunshine as she was spotted in a bright yellow dress in the Big Apple.
The cold shoulder number featured a figure-hugging silhouette, while the daughter of Hollywood icon Ron Howard added a set of matching clogs to the mix.
With her signature scarlet locks left long and loose, Bryce let her natural beauty take center stage as she went virtually makeup-free.
The Midtown outing comes after early reviews for her spy film Argylle resulted in a low point on Rotten Tomatoes for director Matthew Vaughn.
Bryce Dallas Howard appeared in good spirits during an outing in New York City on Wednesday, despite her film Argylle being shredded by critics
The Jurassic Park alum, 42, looked like a ray of sunshine as she was spotted in a bright yellow dress in the Big Apple
The film – which also stars Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill and Samuel L. Jackson – launched with a debut score of 37%, which is lower than Vaughn’s score of 40% for 2021’s The King’s Man.
The film cost approximately $200 million to make and was called “one of the most expensive, worst films ever made” by Katie Walsh. Tribune News Service.
“One of the most chaotically stupid action films to torture audiences in a long time,” says Barry Hertz Globe and mail said about the movie.
‘The comedic touch is almost as heavy-handed as the slow-motion-drenched action is boring, seemingly designed primarily to answer the question, “How many movie stars can one fiasco waste?”‘ Nick Schager of The everyday beast asked.
“A talented cast trapped in an endless story with a fake cat,” says Matt Singer ScreenCrush joked.
David Fear of Rolling Stone kept his review simple and to the point, writing, “Argylle is a bad movie. A very, very bad movie.’
The movie is based on a recently published book of the same name, and follows introverted spy writer Elly Conway (played by Howard) who is drawn into the real world of espionage when the plots of her books get a little too close to the activities of a sinister underground syndicate.
Bryce didn’t fare much better with the critics, as her performance was called “terrible.” The guards Peter Bradshaw.
With her signature scarlet locks left long and loose, Bryce let her natural beauty take center stage as she went virtually makeup-free
The Midtown outing comes after early reviews for her spy film Argylle resulted in a low point on Rotten Tomatoes for director Matthew Vaughn
‘Thanks to some terrible anti-alchemy direction, he has produced a terrible lead performance here from Bryce Dallas Howard as spy writer Elly Conway, whose creations eerily mirror real life.’
“She looks waxy, inert, and uncomfortable; it’s as if she’s wearing ground glass contact lenses, with a dull, blurry quality that doesn’t explain or excuse the script’s big twist,” he wrote.
However, some critics praised Bryce’s performance as the film’s saving grace.
“Howard does her best to keep things lively, but she’s hampered by dull characterization,” notes Richard Lawson of Vanity fair.
He adds: ‘Argylle tries desperately to be kicky, twisty and raw, but above all it feels like a chore, a slog through painful jokes and canned charisma.’
Bryce’s performance was called “terrible” by The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, who wrote that she looks “waxy, inert and uncomfortable.”
Critics labeled Matthew Vaughn’s $200 million spy film Argylle as “one of the most expensive, worst films ever made.” The film features an A-list cast including Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill
The film stars Cavill as lead agent Argylle opposite femme fatale Dua Lipa in her feature film debut.
It was first announced in June 2021, with a script adapted from the novel before it was even published.
‘When I read this early draft manuscript, I felt that it was the most incredible and original spy franchise since Ian Fleming’s books of the 1950s. This is going to reinvent the spy genre,” Vaughn said Deadline at the time.
The film is scheduled for release on February 2, 2024.