PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it 49% "definite recommend".All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The website's critical consensus reads: "Lacking a transporting yuletide story or dazzling dance routines, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a hollow holiday confection that's lovely to look at – and easy to forget.". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 32% based on 202 reviews with an average rating of 5.10/10. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms received generally negative reviews, with criticisms of its story and dance routines.
The movie sometimes can have its moments, like the ballet scene that tells the story of how Clara's mother created the Four Realms.The cinematography and camera angles are beautiful and very well-shot.Clara's backstory with her mother is heartbreaking.The setting for the movie is both stunning and astonishing.James Newton Howard's soundtrack is wonderful and captures the magical tone that the movie was trying to go for, the movie even uses some music from the original ballet.
The costume designs look great and have a lot of effort put into them. The visuals and CGI are beautiful, amazing and very well-done. While the acting is not the best, it's surprisingly not too bad and the actors actually give some decent performances, such as Morgan Freeman as Drosselmeyer and Keira Knightley as The Sugar Plum Fairy. There are several points in the plot that are left unresolved, like how the Sugar Plum Fairy's death leaves the Land of Sweets without a regent. The idea of an entire secret world that Clara's mother created, while interesting, feels like a rip-off of both Alice in Wonderland and Narnia. The side characters are bland and forgettable. Ultimately, it caused the downfall of Lasse Hallström's directing career. The film tries way too hard to be like a Tim Burton film. A huge plothole about how the time in the real world moves way slower than the time in the Realms. In addition to this, her voice sounds annoyingly high-pitched. Also, The Sugar Plum Fairy's motivations for wanting to take over the four realms are very generic, and make her come as evil for the sake of being evil. Night Shyamalan-style twist, which ends up falling completely flat. Sugar Plum is supposed to be a heroic good character in the story, but is turned evil here to pull off an M. Another one of Disney's cliché twist villains: We're led to believe that Mother Ginger and the Mouse King/Mouserinks are the villains of the movie when it's really (SPOILER ALERT) the Sugar Plum Fairy. The Nutcracker (Captain Phillip) and Clara don't share much chemistry on-screen in fact, there is more of it between Clara and The Sugar Plum Fairy. You could easily remove Hoffman from the movie and it wouldn't affect the plot even the slightest. The title is somewhat misleading as it's called The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, yet Captain Phillip Hoffman (aka The Nutcracker) feels like more of a side character who barely gets enough screen time or chemistry with Clara. Some mediocre acting here and there, such as Mackenzie Foy’s performance as Clara. Some "racebending" with the characters, giving two black actors the roles of Drosselmeyer and the Nutcracker. The plot can get very boring throughout most of the movie. Many poorly grasped disloyalties to the source material, as it takes away most of the magical and adventurous tone that the original story and ballet had. Clara and Phillip must now enter a fourth realm to retrieve the key and restore harmony to the unstable land. 
In that world, she meets a soldier named Phillip, a group of mice and the regents who preside over three realms. A golden thread leads her to the coveted key, but it soon disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. Young Clara Stahlbaum needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift. The film received mostly negative reviews, with critics calling it a "boring and soulless adaptation". The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a 2018 American fantasy adventure film directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, and written by Ashleigh Powell. At least it's better than The Nutcracker in 3D, right?
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