Drop
Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 11, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Film ThreatRick HongApr 14, 2025
Drop succeeds by blending classic thriller elements with modern tech paranoia, anchored by strong performances and sharp direction. It’s a tense, engaging ride that keeps viewers guessing until the very end. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 14, 2025
It’s enjoyable stuff: a taut and crisply edited balance between humour and horror. Read full review
80
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 10, 2025
Director Christopher Landon injects the entire affair with so much stylistic verve and narrative propulsion that, like the best kind of first date, it whips by almost too quickly. Read full review
80
EmpireIana MurrayApr 9, 2025
Bolstered by a grounded performance from Meghann Fahy, Drop deftly weaponises its titular tech to update the paranoid thriller for the iPhone age. Better check those security settings. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 9, 2025
Don’t think about the details too much. Just enjoy the exquisite agony of watching people squirm, and you’ll like “Drop” just fine. Read full review
80
ColliderNate RichardMar 11, 2025
Landon has proven himself to be one of the best studio filmmakers in delivering enjoyable genre-forward movies, and Drop may just be his best movie yet. Read full review
80
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMar 10, 2025
It’s the kind of film that not only makes for a great theatrical experience but will also make you want to watch it again immediately afterward to see what you missed the first time. Read full review
80
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaMar 10, 2025
It’s a junk-food thriller fried to near-perfection, balancing the tensions of kidnapping, conspiracy and murder with those of a nerve-wracking first date. It’s crisp and delicious. Read full review
80
SlashfilmRyan ScottMar 10, 2025
It's a lean, crowd-pleasing ride worth taking. Buckle up for one bad yet wilding entertaining, nail-biter of a date. Read full review
80
The GuardianAdrian HortonMar 10, 2025
[Fahy's] dialed-in performance is thankfully matched by an overarching crispness to the proceedings – just enough flourishes, an enjoyable but not unbearable amount of stress, no wasted time, a perfect match of star, script and style. Read full review
78
The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 11, 2025
A canny cautionary tale about the perils of looking for Mr. Right—and of keeping your phone powered on at dinner. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 14, 2025
Drop is the kind of film that separates the real movie lover from the conditional movie lover. It is manipulative, fundamentally ridiculous, obvious, far-fetched, gut-level in its appeal and irresistible. As such, it embodies the true soul of movies. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldApr 11, 2025
Drop gets the job done, and even throws in an excellent cocktail-piano rendition of “Baby Shark.” Go see it on a first date, if you’re brave. Read full review
75
Original-CinThom ErnstApr 10, 2025
Drop is neither profound nor plausible. But it is timely and, as a cautionary tale told in an era where first dates can live or die on how often we glance at our phones, a lot of fun. But buying into the outrageous premise depends on your tolerance for high-stakes nonsense and your patience with neurotic dinner partners. Thankfully, I have experience with both. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrApr 9, 2025
Drop is the sort of unpretentious suspense exercise that takes a single absurd premise and works every variation it can within a streamlined 100 minutes. Your brain is not required, but a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is the price of admission. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonMar 10, 2025
The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMar 10, 2025
It can be so refreshing to see an efficient thrill ride of a movie, a flick that knows what it wants to do and doesn’t waste time doing it. Christopher Landon’s Drop is one of those films, a thriller that unfolds in two locations with few characters, all in pursuit of providing as much entertainment as possible to ticket buyers. Read full review
71
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerApr 10, 2025
Drop is ultimately a nice movie about an abuse survivor being terrorized by seemingly omniscient forces, loaded with moments that don’t really hold up to scrutiny and well-sold by Fahy’s performance. Read full review
70
ABC NewsPeter TraversApr 11, 2025
This expertly-done B movie plunges breakout star Meghann Fahy into one of the scariest situations ever—a first date. The dude (Brandon Sklenar) is a charmer, yet her phone keeps buzzing with text messages to kill him. Hang on for a nerve-jangling ride. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 10, 2025
As with Landon’s equally ludicrous Happy Death Day 2U (2019), the fun comes from seeing exactly how deftly and stylishly the director can pull these things off; it’s like watching a magician successfully perform a trick that you know isn’t a real illusion so much as an act of misdirection, extreme co-ordination and a specific set of well-honed skills. Read full review
70
IGNKatie RifeMar 12, 2025
Drop is a tightly plotted and unpretentious thrill ride. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMar 10, 2025
It’s a perfectly preposterous set-up for a thriller, but the core of Fahy’s agonizingly distracted performance is something real and recognizable. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMar 10, 2025
Landon’s command of suspense, coupled with a compelling romantic thread and delightful performances from Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) and Brandon Sklenar, make Drop a solid popcorn movie. Read full review
67
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 11, 2025
Pulpy and silly, while still having Hitchcockian levels of taut tension and suspense, this first-date-gone-wrong thriller may not be logically coherent, but it’s still self-aware of itself enough and its outrageous moments that it still manages to be a relatively fun diversion despite its inherent inanities. Read full review
67
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMar 10, 2025
Drop works best in its nimblest moments, but ultimately we should have nothing but gratitude for a movie that has almost zero bloat and tells an effective, original story in 90 minutes, even if this sleek package is made up of some shopworn tropes. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 11, 2025
What starts out as a devilishly clever exercise in evasion and detection turns into a self-parody that climaxes with several eye-rolling whoppers. Well, at least it’s never boring. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 11, 2025
The film may be a silly thing, with manic swings from intimate (and pretty rough) violence to abrupt comic relief. But Fahy and Sklenar provide the glue. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleApr 10, 2025
Drop, a silly but suspenseful new thriller, carries on the tradition of “When a Stranger Calls” and “Phone Booth” by situating its tension around mysterious, threatening phone messages. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 10, 2025
Drop is pleasantly silly and minimally suspenseful. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMatt SchimkowitzApr 10, 2025
Relying too much on bombast and shaky effects that diminish the tension, the movie isn’t confident enough to see its premise all the way through. At its best, though, Drop updates the small-scale, high-concept suspense that Hollywood has had on airplane mode for too long. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 11, 2025
So far I’ve yet to see any movie figure out how to integrate the dull activity of staring at a small black rectangle into something worthy of the screen. Landon’s approach looks a bit too much like a billboard or a meme, but I think he’s on the right track to be trying something expressionistic that circles back around to silent-movie aesthetics. Read full review
50
Little White LiesHannah StrongApr 11, 2025
Exaggerated misdirections do nothing to prevent Drop‘s eventual reveal from feeling obvious and contrived, to the extent that even a svelte 90 minute runtime starts to feel like a stretch. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 11, 2025
Fahy does a decent job conveying vulnerability, even if the desperation that should figure in here seems a tad tame until the third act. Sklenar is mostly just a hunky pawn, here. Read full review
50
TheWrapChase HutchinsonMar 11, 2025
While Landon has made fun genre outings before with “Happy Death Day,” “Happy Death Day 2U,” and “Freaky,” Drop is, at its best, never more than just down the middle. At its worst, it’s an oddly clunky experience that strands its performers with little to work with. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyApr 11, 2025
Drop is ludicrous. OK, so are all films in which a taunting psychopath calls the shots, but this one takes the biscuit because of the so-not-cutting-edge tech element. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesApr 11, 2025
Ms. Fahy, who had a breakthrough with the second season of “The White Lotus,” tries admirably to dignify her character, but the attempt is overwhelmed by the plot’s silly hijinks, its twists more like arbitrary swerves. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonApr 9, 2025
The absurd plot twists in “Drop,” might be tolerable if the film weren’t so distastefully tethered to domestic violence. Read full review
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