Ready or Not
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmJames MottramSep 25, 2019
Not subtle (and might put you off getting hitched), but hits its mark with baseball-bat force. Read full review
60
VoxAlissa WilkinsonAug 22, 2019
Ready or Not takes its name from a game, an amusement for children, but it has something to say about some very grown-up concerns. And it’s both fun and deadly serious. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 16, 2019
As games go, this one’s a little too easy to outfox, but it’s worth playing if you need a quick diversion, or if the chess moves of The Favourite felt overly vicious—Ready or Not is pure checkers. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 14, 2019
Although directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett do a good job executing tense suspense sequences, neither the satire nor the setup is particularly convincing. What we’re left with is some nifty cinematic gamesmanship which is not as politically astute as it thinks it is. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 14, 2019
Ready has a fine time with its setting (the trappings of old money are much more appealing here than they were in Netflix's Murder Mystery), and Weaving is sharp enough to play things straight as the ensemble around her goes for the occasional laugh. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBradley WarrenJul 29, 2019
With the bar for breakout genre flicks being set so high in recent years, one can’t help but feel that Radio Silence is capable of something more substantial and memorable in its craft. Like most of Grace and Alex’s wedding gifts, Ready or Not is certainly diverting but hardly essential. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 19, 2019
While the mocking tone mostly undermines any trenchant commentary, the strongest impression Ready or Not leaves, thanks to Weaving’s eye-rolling, primal-screaming, evil-giggling performance, is of the cathartic, transformative female rage at the center of it all. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 19, 2019
Its pace is oddly arrhythmic and the tone is every which way but assured. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 22, 2019
It’s all B-movie stuff, though sporadically entertaining and occasionally witty on the intertwined subjects of bedevilment and in-laws. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 20, 2019
As a comedy, it’s simply not funny and as a horror, it works better in pieces but not with the consistency a film set over one night would require. Read full review
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