The biting and ballsy social commentary of Verhoeven still holds up.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2023

A strong, almost outrageous representation of the military-industrial complex in the States, Verhoeven's sci-fi film benefits from being over the top in everything: its acting, its convoluted plot, its politics.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.7/10 | Oct 30, 2023

Satirical and witty while seemingly bizarre, Starship Troopers flips its source material on its head and creates a memorable science fiction flick. It’s camouflaged by the misdirection that it’s a dumb bug movie when it’s actually quite intelligent.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Verhoeven [and] screenwriter Edward Neumeier... transform the intergalactic platoon movie into a perverse concoction of patriotic fervor, fascist ideology, media satire, and military might, at once thrilling and sinister, energetic and cynical.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2023

Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is an odd and most distressing film.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2023

Director Paul Verhoeven blends the conflicting elements of intentional camp and perverse sincerity into a single tone—and he doesn’t resort to simple irony.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2023

…Starship Troopers is one prescient sci-fi epic well worth losing your heart to…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2023

We can appreciate it for what it really is and notice the subtle comments it makes on the dangers of following along with leaders in a fascist society.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2023

It's not as serious as it is a comic variation on old-fashioned ideas. Kids won't get the tongue-in-cheek approach, but part of the appeal is that the movie works on both levels.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 10, 2023

Paul Verhoeven's ahead-of-its-time satire is equal parts grotesque and hilarious, while acting as an indictment of the war-oriented mentality that would consume our nation just a few years after its release.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2022

Verhoeven is absolutely cutthroat in this satire about war, propaganda and fascism. The fact that audiences and critics may have missed the intention of this fun, hilarious and gory war film is wild. 25 years later it still holds up

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The sci-fi film’s cautionary tale about reckless militarism and the dangers of fascism feels even more relevant today than it did when the movie was released 25 years ago...

Full Review | Nov 10, 2022

It aims low and hits, again and again, with hammering relentlessness and a steady stream of rude satire.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 1, 2022

Here the bestial brutality of US imperialism is shown from the inside.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2021

I do recall the day after 9/11 thinking, "Why is Dubya lit like Sky Marshal Tehat Meru now?" That's why Starship Troopers director Paul Verhoeven and writer Ed Neumeier are treasures...

Full Review | Sep 9, 2021

Often grotesque and sometimes pretty cheesy too, it's now embraced by many film fans as sly satire skewering America's weakness for right-wing militarism.

Full Review | May 10, 2021

With the use of plenty of practical effects, realistic gore, and models blended into the computer graphics, the look of the film is spectacular.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Time is the only real judge of art, and time has been more than kind to Starship Troopers.

Full Review | May 20, 2020

The background of all this is one of the most openly satirical films of a director who has never lost his sense of humor. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 14, 2019

One of the very best satires of the 1990s, if not beyond.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2019