Jurassic World Rebirth
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 2, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 55 Critic Reviews
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19
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27
Negative:
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 30, 2025
The craft is exemplary – it’s easily the best-looking, best-sounding film since the first. But it takes a deep, personal love of the medium for a director to deliver such crunchy impact, thrills, spills and euphoric highs while treading anew in footsteps as craterous (and muddy) as they come. If it’s not the blockbuster of the summer, I’ll be amazed. Read full review
88
The Associated PressMark KennedyJun 30, 2025
In many ways, the folks behind Jurassic World Rebirth are trying to do the same thing as their mercenaries: Going back to the source code to recapture the magic of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster original. They’ve thrillingly succeeded. Read full review
83
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerJun 30, 2025
Does Rebirth set up a promising new future for the franchise, as its title suggests? Not exactly — again, this feels very much like a stand-alone adventure. But it does prove that it’s still possible to tell a suspenseful and exciting stand-alone story within this franchise; while it might not quite match the original, it at least doesn’t lose sight of its most compelling elements. Dinosaurs might be dying out. But the audience’s desire to watch them gobble up humans will never go extinct. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerJun 30, 2025
Jurassic Park Rebirth is one of the more successful and satisfying entries in the franchise precisely because it, uh, finds a way to keep Loomis’ mantra close, foregrounding the film’s sense of wonder above a mere blatant cash grab. Read full review
80
TheWrapBill BriaJun 30, 2025
“Rebirth” proves that both Edwards and Koepp are excellent craftsmen, as it’s a delightfully thrilling summer movie adventure. It’s rather slight, and doesn’t provide any sort of bold new direction for the franchise, but as far as cinematic cheeseburgers go, it’s a tasty one. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 30, 2025
Edwards (director of 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the 2014 Godzilla) and Koepp (who wrote the scripts for the first two Jurassic Park movies) know what they’re doing here: they locate the perfect ratio of human business to dinosaur antics, favoring the dinosaurs when in doubt. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJun 30, 2025
There is something nostalgic about Rebirth. And yet that cosy feeling is achieved primarily through composer Alexandre Desplat’s targeted deployment of John Williams’s original theme, and through the way Koepp and Edwards lightly pay homage to certain, familiar sequences (there’s a scene of a kid dodging between aisles here, too, just like with the raptors in the kitchen). Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherJun 30, 2025
In the end, though, the pairing of Edwards with Koepp is the complementary master stroke. They are camera and script in harmony, deftly entwined for a franchise that is finally, after thirty years, worthy of rebirth. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 30, 2025
It feels relaxed and sure-footed in its Spielberg pastiche, its big dino-jeopardy moments and its deployment of thrills and laughs. Maybe the series can’t and shouldn’t go on for ever: we need new and original ideas. This one would be great to go out on. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJul 2, 2025
The bottom line, for any movie that purports to be a thrill ride, is whether the end result is thrilling — and I’d give a definite yes to that. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJul 2, 2025
Tell me that you have an expedition movie with clear objectives and unlikely odds, anchored by a compelling cast of characters, and you have my attention. Add dinosaurs and you have my money. Make it all work—especially within the context of the Jurassic franchise—and you have a miracle. Read full review
70
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 2, 2025
Jurassic World: Rebirth plays, nonetheless, as a refreshing blast of matinee exuberance after the pomposity of the previous three films. Yes, third best in the series. For whatever little that is worth. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJun 30, 2025
In its fusion of Edwards’ craft with characters who aren’t thunderously stupid or unlikable, this is the best Jurassic movie in ages – in part because it works so comfortably as an ooh/ahh/run/scream monster movie. Read full review
70
Screen RantMary KasselJun 30, 2025
Going back to basics was the best thing it could have done. With a straightforward narrative and characters we care about who don't overcomplicate the plot, the film crafts something more timeless. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJun 30, 2025
Whatever the new movie lacks in originality, it makes up for in propulsive narrative drive, big scares and appealing new characters played by a terrific cast — even if they are mostly cut from an existing mold. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubRory DohertyJun 30, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth‘s attempt at rejuvenating its franchise mirrors the vitality of its once-extinct reptiles: This movie may have breathed life back where once it was thought lost, but this life is not pure or sustainable. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 2, 2025
There are flashes and occasional whole sequences when Edwards’ directorial eye snaps into focus. Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrJul 1, 2025
Rebirth recycles elements of the earlier movies, and, other than the news that T. Rexes can swim, it makes no claims to originality. It just wants to leave you thoroughly, happily wrung out by the end. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittJul 1, 2025
Edwards has a penchant for large spectacle movies with a big budget and a bigger message (see: “Godzilla,” “Rogue One”), and while this “Rebirth” isn’t exactly a thinking man’s “Jurassic,” there's enough B-movie craziness to keep it enjoyable. Read full review
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