Ash
Shudder | Release Date: March 21, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Film ThreatKent HillMar 20, 2025
Ash is riveting, even as it drifts away from and back into the precarious tropes of the genre, like waves against the shore. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 24, 2025
A hypnotic star child of out-there wonder and internal corruption and chaos. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comZachary LeeMar 12, 2025
It’s a B-movie operating at the highest levels of craftsmanship, intrigue, and performance. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 28, 2025
Ash is categorically a vibe more than it is an especially unique story or illuminating character study, even if González’s steely beauty conveys plenty about the psychological stakes at hand. But in this age of expensive and overwrought world-building, it’s Ellison’s experiential care with well-worn material that delivers the goods. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 17, 2025
The sci-fi horror-thriller Ash makes the most of a minimal budget, casting Eiza Gonzalez as the lone survivor on a distant planet whois unsure how she got there or who she is. With Aaron Paul playing a fellow astronaut trying to help jog her memory about a massacre that occurred at the base, the film quickly establishes an aura of paranoia and bad vibes, paving the way for deft twists and an appreciably gory finale. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 12, 2025
The movie’s razor-sharp visuals leave scratch marks on the back of your eyeballs, liable to burst back into your consciousness in subsequent dreams. Read full review
67
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerMar 21, 2025
Ash could be a rumination on the nature of identity, or the destructive colonial spirit of Americans, or the indescribable horrors of a world beyond our own ruined one, but despite all of its cranked-up imagery and sometimes-confusing storytelling, it’s tidier and less thought-provoking than any of that – a genre exercise, capably extended. Read full review
67
IndieWireKatie RifeMar 12, 2025
Trying to fight this film’s sensations, as unpleasant as they may be at times, will bring nothing but misery. So just give in, vibe out, and take solace in the fact that “Ash” is way more accessible than Flying Lotus’ first film. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 20, 2025
The film will likely find a receptive audience among those who enjoy blood-soaked B movies. It has enough gory elements to enhance the overpowering mood. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeMar 17, 2025
Flying Lotus and his collaborators give Ash enough visual flair to occasionally transcend such limitations as forgettable characters with fuzzy motivations. Read full review
60
The New York TimesRobert DanielsMar 20, 2025
The high-concept sci-fi horror film “Ash,” a hazy story about an amnesiac deep-space explorer who awakens to discover her entire crew was killed, is light on answers but heavy on style. Read full review
60
ColliderNate RichardMar 18, 2025
Ash feels too familiar, which is disappointing coming from such an idiosyncratic filmmaker like Flying Lotus. This material feels like it's too derivative to be effective, but the video game-like atmosphere, bonkers direction, and reliable cast make it far more watchable. Read full review
58
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMar 24, 2025
The word Competent! rarely makes it into a movie’s marketing materials no matter how accurate it is. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMar 20, 2025
True to its inspirations, Ash offers up a formal mix between traditional sci-fi filmmaking and frequent first-person segments (either through pseudo-body cam footage or more explicitly video game-like bouts of point-of-view panic) that gives the familiarity a bit more energy than your average knock-off. Read full review
50
IGNRafael MotamayorMar 18, 2025
With heavy inspirations from games like Dead Space and movies like Alien and The Thing, Flying Lotus' Ash is an ambitious, visually enthralling sci-fi horror movie. But its tale of a space station terrorized by a mysterious, gooey threat is otherwise empty and derivative, and takes too long to get going. Read full review
50
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMar 14, 2025
Ash can be horrific and genuinely startling; there’s a specific scene near the end that underscores the apprehension that permeates the film. It’s chilling and memorable. And yet, had the sci-fi thriller given its characters more dimension, it would have been all the stronger. Read full review
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