Bryce Dallas Howard appeared in high 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 wearing a bright yellow gown in the Big Apple.
The cold shoulder number featured a skintight silhouette, as the daughter of Hollywood icon Ron Howard added a set of matching clogs to the mix.
With her trademark 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 flick Argylle resulted in a record low at Rotten Tomatoes for director Matthew Vaughn.
Bryce Dallas Howard appeared in high 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 wearing a bright yellow gown in the Big Apple
The movie – which also stars Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, and Samuel L. Jackson – launched with a debut score of 37%, falling beneath Vaughn’s score of 40% for 2021’s The King’s Man.
Costing around $200M to make, the film was dubbed ‘one of the most expensive worst movies ever made’ by Katie Walsh from Tribune News Service.
‘One of the most chaotically stupid action movies to torture audiences in ages,’ Barry Hertz from Globe and Mail said of the film.
‘Its comic touch almost as heavy-handed as its slow-motion-drenched action is dull, it seems primarily designed to answer the question, “How many movie stars can one fiasco squander?”’ Nick Schager of The Daily Beast asked.
‘A talented cast trapped in an endless story with a fake cat,’ Matt Singer from ScreenCrush quipped.
David Fear from Rolling Stone kept his review simple and to the point, writing, ‘Argylle is a bad movie. A very, very bad movie.’
The film is based on a recently published book of the same name, and follows the introverted spy novelist called 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 fair much better with the critics, as her performance was called ‘awful’ by The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw.
With her trademark 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 flick Argylle resulted in a record low at Rotten Tomatoes for director Matthew Vaughn
‘Through some terrible directing anti-alchemy, he has elicited an awful lead performance here from Bryce Dallas Howard as spy novelist Elly Conway, whose creations uncannily mirror real life.’
‘She looks waxy, inert and uncomfortable; it’s as if she is wearing cut-glass contact lenses, with a torpid, unfocused quality which the script’s big twist does not explain or excuse,’ he wrote.
However some of the critics praised Bryce’s performance as the film’s saving grace.
‘Howard tries her best to keep things lively, but she’s hampered by dull characterization,’ notes Richard Lawson from Vanity Fair.
He adds: ‘Argylle strains desperately hard to be kicky and twisty and raucous but mostly feels like a chore, a slog through painful gags and canned charisma.’
Bryce’s performance was called ‘awful’ by The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, who wrote that she looks, ‘waxy, inert and uncomfortable’
Critics blasted Matthew Vaughn’s $200M spy flick Argylle as ‘one of the most expensive worst movies ever made’. The film features an A-list cast including Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill
The film stars Cavill as the lead Agent Argylle opposite femme fatale Dua Lipa in her feature length acting 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 it was the most incredible and original spy franchise since Ian Fleming’s books of the 50s. This is going to reinvent the spy genre,’ Vaughn told Deadline at the time.
The film is set for release on February 2, 2024.
