Hallow Road
| Release Date: October 31, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMar 12, 2025
The film is a compelling moral character study and a breathtaking thriller that steps on the gas and never lets up. It’s a perfect addition to Anvari’s already robust work as a filmmaker. Read full review
90
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaMar 12, 2025
With its dramatic themes spread across two wildly different halves, it makes for a unique, propulsive thrill ride whose baffling existence is key to its enjoyment. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureCody DericksNov 6, 2025
A pair of excellent performances from Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, led by clever direction from Babak Anvari, make this a tense, captivating thriller, even while set in only one location. Read full review
80
EmpireAmon WarmannMay 16, 2025
This Hallow Road is paved with brilliant performances, a smart, unpredictable script, and tight, precise direction from Anvari. An unsettling ride worth taking.  Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherMay 16, 2025
Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys deliver a concentrated burst of parental trauma in this propulsive psychological thriller that’s set almost entirely inside a Land Rover late at night. It’s like Tom Hardy’s Locke but more intense. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 16, 2025
Sickeningly effective. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 15, 2025
This is a really exhilarating, disturbing picture which foregrounds excellent writing and performances. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 14, 2025
By keeping the camera in the vehicle, hauntingly lit with the blur of passing houses and the glow of the mobile phone, Hallow Road invites you to fill the scene at the other end of the line with a shadowy menace that the final stretch really delivers on. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMay 14, 2025
Few so economical features – 80 minutes, with only three significant characters – have had such unsettling fun in the dark, dark woods. Don’t let it slip you by. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 12, 2025
Anvari’s movie strikes a keen balance between psychological thriller and eerie folkloric horror. Its disturbing ambiguities take on whole new shadings after an unexpected reveal in the end credits. Read full review
75
The Travers TakePeter TraversNov 1, 2025
Two people talking in a car. Hardly the stuff of white-knuckle drama, right? It is when you hitch two phenomenal actors, Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, to a suspenseful script and tightly coiled direction by Babak Anvari, and then stand back and let them rip. Read full review
75
The Associated PressLindsey BahrOct 29, 2025
Ultimately, it’s an effectively minimalistic thriller that leaves much room for interpretation and debate, and a good option for anyone looking for something creepy to watch this Halloween without the gore. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMar 12, 2025
Hallow Road really thrives when at its most simple. Sticking with Pike and Rhys in a simple windshield shot, cutting only to other tight, static angles from inside the car, allows the pair to carry the film. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMar 17, 2025
Despite its vaguely-generic title, this well-crafted close-quarters suspense from British-Iranian director Babak Anvari is firmly-written, -shot and -acted. Read full review
60
Little White LiesKatherine McLaughlinMay 16, 2025
Playing out as part psychological chiller and part supernatural horror, it navigates parental fears and family secrets in a sinister liminal space. Read full review
60
ColliderMatt DonatoMar 13, 2025
Performances are the spectacle, and both actors do a tremendous job translating the worst feeling any parent can experience. It all depends on your patience for slow-burn horrors, and if there's enough nightmare fuel to stay along for the ride. Read full review
58
IndieWireRitesh MehtaMar 17, 2025
Unfortunately, the film never transcends its tone of ever-present and palpable danger to become a more satisfying character piece. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 16, 2025
Eighty minutes ought to be a tight frame for this sort of hokum, which takes no effort to watch, but the only thing that escalates is how silly it is. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzOct 31, 2025
Hallow Road is an earnest attempt to make a movie no one has seen before, only to end up with one few will want to watch again. Read full review
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