Bushwick
RLJ Entertainment | Release Date: August 25, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireSimon CrookSep 4, 2017
Delivering knockout action and political punch, this blazing siren of a B movie imagines America at civil war with vicious force. Sequel, please. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 24, 2017
What could have been a great B-movie winds up being merely solid. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 28, 2017
Bushwick is actually an amazing template for the kind of virtual-reality entertainment that I bet will be common in a decade or two. Read full review
70
VarietyGeoff BerkshireAug 25, 2017
Even if the low-budget execution is uneven at times, there’s enough snap to the filmmaking, and enough raw power in the premise, to make for solid B-movie excitement. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeAug 25, 2017
What distinguishes Bushwick from your standard-issue, boneheaded video game is its cheeky cerebral wit. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerAug 24, 2017
Bushwick is an unpolished work, but there's an adrenalin charge, sure thing. It's close combat and it's closer than most Americans might wish to believe. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 22, 2017
Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott's Bushwick is a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure. Read full review
60
Total FilmJosh WinningAug 23, 2017
Dave Bautista’s street-level action flick is galaxies away from Marvel gloss, but the Guardians scene-stealer lends physicality to this gutsy, Carpenter-esque B-movie. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 24, 2017
Unfortunately, because of a variety of missteps, Bushwick never achieves what it sets out to do. It’s undone by a litany of bad decisions and the underlying weakness of the core material. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 23, 2017
Bushwick imagines nothing less than the collapse of the United States Of America, with half the country in armed revolt. At a time when that possibility can feel all too frighteningly real, it’s dispiriting to see it employed as little more than an excuse to engineer a live-action Grand Theft Auto. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 8, 2017
Bushwick never rises above bush league, more a missed opportunity than a wickedly on-target winner. Read full review
42
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerAug 25, 2017
If it never fully realizes the horrors of its prescient setup, it’s nevertheless effective in fits and starts. Read full review
42
The PlaylistAndrew CrumpAug 24, 2017
Maybe if the film gave us the relief of a satisfying ending, the grimness, the ickiness, wouldn’t be so pronounced. But it doesn’t. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 25, 2017
Stars Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow aren’t compelling enough, and the film’s formal gimmicks aren’t clever enough. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 24, 2017
Sadly the acting and dialogue needed a little work. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleAug 24, 2017
There are the occasional moments when Bushwick lets on that it knows that this is all truly awful. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoAug 24, 2017
Murnion and Milott’s Bushwick feels like a John Carpenter film without the societal skewering. A nasty, hate-filled movie with shaky detailing. Read full review
34
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaAug 31, 2017
The lone beacon of subtlety and warmth here is Dave Bautista, a man I would like to give a long hug. Bautista is able to extract quiet moments of genuine empathy and reflection from the shitshow droning on around him, yanking whatever depth is available from the shallow husk of a character he’s given. Read full review
30
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyAug 24, 2017
Bushwick is a hollow, ultimately unsatisfying exercise in organized chaos. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 24, 2017
Realistically depicting full-scale domestic terrorism is one thing, but directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott seem unaware of how their long-take gimmick — the cuts are easily determined — destroys logic, emboldens the use of stereotypes, and kills suspense. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 24, 2017
The filmmakers feign boldness in tackling national politics, but revert to coyness and caricature when it comes to local matters, gesturing toward a multiculturalism that isn’t even skin deep and sweeping gentrification under the rug. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedAug 31, 2017
It just seems exaggerated and silly. Maybe there’s an idea rattling around in here somewhere, but I’d like to see it in a better movie than Bushwick. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAug 25, 2017
The movie’s main feature is a group of long-take, moving-camera action scenes that I guess might have been more engaging had the characters on the run and in battle been figures you wanted to spend any time with. They’re not. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 23, 2017
Their movie is a tedious slog filled with pinging bullets, show-offy long takes ripped out of the Children of Men playbook and zero humor. Read full review
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