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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 77IGNJim VejvodaIGNJim VejvodaCrawl is a fun albeit familiar human vs. beast movie, one that gets plenty of mileage out of its setting and people’s deep-set fear of being eaten.
- This is precisely the type of movie we expect to see at the summer box office; an incessantly entertaining and dangerous adventure that will leave you breathless.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe entertainment value in a straight-up genre picture like this is how fraught each new corner of peril that they turn manages to be. And there’s plenty of that. And damned if Aja and his cast find some actual emotion in all this, too.
- 63RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyRogerEbert.comTomris LafflyCrawl has a reptilian bite in its nods to the tradition of underwater monster flicks. It’s certainly not “Jaws” (what is?), or even “The Shallows,” but sloshing around the hazardous deluge of a Southwest Florida town on the brink of devastation by a Category 5 hurricane comes with its own kicks.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAccepting the film's own standard of plausibility, thrillseekers should appreciate the brisk pace with which scares, setbacks and possible escapes are delivered.
- 60Rolling StoneDavid FearRolling StoneDavid FearLike the apex predators slithering at the center of it all, it gets the job done once it lets is more brutal, primal instincts take over. Bon Appétit.
- 50Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayCrawl is action-packed, with impressive special effects and some jaw-dropping images of mayhem and destruction. But a movie like this demands more storytelling discipline and logistical control than these filmmakers can manage.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA smoothly efficient popcorn picture...Though Scodelario is spunky and game in what must have been an extremely uncomfortable shoot, the script (by the brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen) is airless and repetitive.
- 48TheWrapMichael NordineTheWrapMichael NordineThe single-minded simplicity of its plotting can at times be an asset rather than a hindrance; in a summer even more bogged down by needless sequels and remakes than most, Crawl is, at the very least, a lean thriller that isn’t based on an existing property.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanCrawl has no pretense and not very much range; it’s “Jaws” set in an old dark house.