I think the middling reviews make it more interesting to me tbh. It’ll be interesting to see why after everything they’ve done over the last few years and Chloe Zhao directing.
I read the empire review and it seems their biggest complaints are that (spoilers) there’s a big battle at the end of it and the good guys win and given Zhao won best picture / director for nomadland, it’s not some art house piece, both of which seem stupid complaints to me.