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Escape Room

2019

Adam Robitel

Taylor Russell, Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller, Tyler Labine ...

5.4

12,254

Horror. Thriller. Mystery The film — in in the vein of David Fincher’s “The Game,” starring Michael Douglas — is an elevated psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive.

	Author	Review
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"[A] fun little thriller (...) There’s real care and attention to detail in all of the wicked little traps (...It’s [got] a surprisingly funny script, too"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"There are intimations of 'Tales From the Crypt', 'Final Destination' (...) and other older, better films here; this movie never catches a fire like any of those did, and even its twist coda feels dreary and pro forma."	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	" You’ll see worse movies (...) The best thing you can say about Escape Room is that for most of it, you’re not desperately searching for the exit sign.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's pretty good, which might sound like faint praise, but for a movie like this, pretty good is the brass ring (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Even when these movies are good, they're pure carny contraptions. But next to the unevenly diverting trap-door convolutions of 'Escape Room', something like 'Deathtrap' begins to look like Chekhov."	NEG
United States	Trace Thurman Bloody Disgusting	"A fun time-passer. Not great. Not terrible. But a perfectly serviceable way to start off the 2019 film year (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"It's a movie about escape rooms (...) if you're willing to buy into that premise, it's about as good as a movie with that premise could probably be."	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"For all its of-the-moment charms, 'Escape Room' can't shake its more basic genre trappings, eventually giving itself over to tired and predictable revelations and flimsy twists."	NEG
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Clumsily scripted and extremely predictable, 'Escape Room' absolutely deserves to be unloaded into the cinematic landfill"	NEG
United States	Drew Lazor Philadelphia Inquirer	"While it fancies itself a stylish hybrid of 'Saw' and 'The Game', [it] is much more evocative of the 1997 low-budget cult hit 'Cube', a much gorier and far less stylish variation on the same theme (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A very cinematic spatial impossibility is conjured up by Robitel as he allows the audience to ponder how exactly these rooms are supposed to fit together (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"There’s something limp about the execution, rendering the whole thing too innocuous for its own good (...) Add a star, by all means, if watching it drunk (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"The characters lack dimensions (...) It’s fun at the start then loses its way (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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