Inheritance
IFC Films | Release Date (Streaming): January 24, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 22, 2025
A successful experiment that’s highly attuned to the digital immediacy of our modern condition. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshJan 24, 2025
With a ruthlessly pared-down approach and compelling performer in Dynevor, who carries the film effortlessly, “Inheritance” is a throwback thriller that hearkens to the retro days of the Y2K era. And while its style eclipses its substance, it’s the style that makes this cinematic curio worth watching. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyJan 22, 2025
How the film conceives of Maya is somewhat limited by her being a naive pawn in a bigger picture, but Dynevor easily demonstrates the screen presence to sustain this whole enterprise. Read full review
70
Screen DailyNikki BaughanJan 22, 2025
This guerrilla approach, together with Dynevor’s committed performance, give Inheritance an adrenaline-fuelled agility that lifts it above the normal trappings of the genre. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJan 22, 2025
Burger—a Hollywood journeyman who’s done some hackwork but began his career with the 2002 conspiracy mock-doc Interview With The Assassin—keeps things moving with a vérité point-of-view that sometimes makes it feel like the camera is the one doing the spying. Read full review
60
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJan 25, 2025
Ultimately, Inheritance is a fairly good attempt to branch out into different technical abilities within the spy thriller genre. Hopefully, this method and films like Inheritance continue to inspire such attempts. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiJan 24, 2025
You always get the sense that you are watching a screenplay’s first draft that never got the fleshing-out that it clearly needed to make it stand out, either from a dramatic or emotional standpoint. Read full review
50
IndieWireAlison ForemanJan 23, 2025
The making-of story is well worth hunting down and can make this broadly underwhelming movie almost worth the watch. Read full review
50
ColliderShaina WeatherheadJan 23, 2025
While the unique shooting style and the talents of Dynevor and Ifans should have set the film up for success, the underdeveloped characters and underwhelming twists render Inheritance a tedious watch rather than a gripping espionage action flick. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 22, 2025
The gimmickry ultimately wears thin and you find yourself thinking less about the inventive way the scenes were shot . . . than the flimsy narrative. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDavid RobbJan 22, 2025
Its bizarre mismatch of form and content mostly saps it of life, tamping down the tension and frequently suggesting an accidentally distributed proof of concept for a project that never managed to secure funding. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJan 23, 2025
It’s underbaked and baffling to watch, with little tension or interest to pull us through. Read full review
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