Rebel Ridge
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 6, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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27
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3
Negative:
0
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95
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 4, 2024
A film like Rebel Ridge reminds us that you can lose yourself in exciting, engaging, stimulating entertainment while still keeping your brain completely on. Read full review
91
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 4, 2024
Saulnier has returned with a tremendous, high-impact blast of a movie, making any delayed gratification all the more satisfying. Read full review
91
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezSep 4, 2024
Saulnier’s overall mise en scene is impressive. Everything from precision camera work, rigorous composition, framing and blocking, nimble, tight editing, and stress-inducing music, Rebel Ridge kicks ass in the best possible sense, entertaining, thrilling, and always captivating. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerSep 4, 2024
Rebel Ridge isn’t a lecture on civil asset forfeiture; it’s as elementally satisfying as a great Western. That’s really the genre Saulnier lands on here, complete with a moral clarity about its violence. Read full review
90
SlateJack HamiltonSep 13, 2024
As simply a genre exercise, Rebel Ridge would be exquisite work, but what elevates the film even further is its rare intelligence and conscience. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 6, 2024
The film manages to be both intelligent and visceral. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshSep 5, 2024
Hanging over the narrative is a sense of futility, that this can and will happen again and again. Another lawsuit, another life lost, another workaround. But for a moment, one man on a bike with a few expertly wielded weapons can wreak holy havoc on corrupt cops, and damn does it feel good to watch. Read full review
88
The Associated PressMark KennedySep 5, 2024
It’s a triumph of small-budget, naturalistic filmmaking, where cars on a gravel road kick up choking clouds of dust and arm bones crack when pressure is applied. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 4, 2024
Most of all, Rebel Ridge is just a reminder of how thrilling it can be to see a genre piece with this level of artistry. Read full review
83
The Film StageJordan RaupSep 4, 2024
While Rebel Ridge hints at larger systemic issues that could be part of a million other small towns across the country, the film works best when solely anchored on Terry’s perspective. The experience is one of riveting twists, turns, and unnerving tension. Read full review
83
IndieWireDaniel JoyauxSep 4, 2024
It’s a muscular, high-octane story about cops living above the laws they’re paid to enforce, and growing more desperate and dangerous with every threat to their unchecked power. Read full review
80
EmpireJames DyerSep 6, 2024
Firmly establishing Aaron Pierre’s credentials as a thinking man’s Rambo, Rebel Ridge might not be particularly groundbreaking, but this Netflix-and-kill thriller is an undeniably fun night in. Read full review
80
Little White LiesKambole CampbellSep 6, 2024
Rebel Ridge feels like the film all his previous ones were all building to, evidence of the lessons taken on from Saulnier’s previous work: dancing between tense standoffs in tight spaces; the terror of being followed up the open road. He moves purposefully between these confrontations with the film’s angry unspooling of a broken political system. Read full review
80
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSep 4, 2024
Rebel Ridge delivers the goods. Pierre is the film's true weapon, and the movie wouldn't work nearly as well as it does without his cool-as-hell performance. The actor has striking eyes, and Saulnier realizes this, using lots of close-ups of Terry's face as he silently works things out. Read full review
80
IGNA.A. Dowd Sep 4, 2024
Saulnier savages the legal loopholes that allow police to exploit their community, all while offering the year’s most breathlessly suspenseful standoffs. It’s what a modern crowd-pleaser should be: smart, gripping, and about something. Read full review
80
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 4, 2024
There’s such electricity to Rebel Ridge – I just hope enough people get the chance to feel it. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenNov 8, 2024
Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) lets the racial tension largely simmer beneath the surface (Terry is Black), leaning into his trademark, straight-ahead propulsive style. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 9, 2024
[Pierre] owns the role so fully that it’s hard to imagine anyone else in it. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 9, 2024
Saulnier’s made a slow-burn thriller that surprises and keeps us guessing and waiting, mostly for that moment when somebody draws “First Blood,” and even then he trips up expectations, and deliciously so. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussSep 4, 2024
It’s tougher than it looks to sidestep revenge movie shortcuts and formulaic payoffs while keeping matters engaging. But Saulnier does it. Off-kilter and fresh, Rebel Ridge may frustrate crude expectations, but its satisfactions are many. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd GilchristSep 5, 2024
Ultimately muscular and effective if predictable, Saulnier’s latest reaffirms his bona fides as a deliverer of sturdy, tightly-controlled thrills. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonSep 5, 2024
Sticking within the bounds of reality does make for a heck of a good slow-speed car chase. Those craving flashier, bullet-spraying butt-kickery will have to hope for a more gonzo sequel. Read full review
70
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 4, 2024
Doesn’t ultimately put its star through the slam-bang paces often enough, but as a human weapon pushed to the limit, the actor proves ideally fit for such rugged genre environs. Read full review
70
The Irish TimesTara BradySep 4, 2024
Pierre, who replaced John Boyega after the latter’s controversial departure, is a convincing and charismatic action hero. The supporting cast, particularly Robb, Emory Cohen, and Johnson, make for good company. The film’s cinematographer, David Gallego, does some nifty footwork around a thrilling Mexican standoff. Worth the wait. Read full review
70
Screen RantMary KasselSep 4, 2024
Rebel Ridge is consistently precise in tone, theme, and pacing throughout. Read full review
70
ColliderChase HutchinsonSep 4, 2024
In every piercing stare, you can see Terry’s determination and drive just as you do brief flashes of overwhelming despair at the depravity that surrounds him. It becomes surprisingly emotionally impactful at key moments, all of which Pierre plays perfectly. For all the restraint both actor and character embody, the joy of the film comes in how you see the righteous fury growing inside him. It's just waiting to burst free to set things right in a world gone awry. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkSep 4, 2024
Rebel Ridge never rises to the panic-infused heights of its opening, but Jeremy Saulnier is still able to maintain a baseline of oppressive tension as we watch a man navigate the deep-seated corruption of a sundown town. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 8, 2024
The film runs out of momentum, finding itself ensnared in a needlessly complicated web of intrigue and administrative shenanigans. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 13, 2024
An action drama about the widespread legitimation of abuses by police departments, it arrives onscreen with a jolt but then subsides into a comfort zone of formulaic tropes. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesSep 4, 2024
This story of corruption and conspiracy in a small Louisiana town might have passed as a taut if familiar action thriller — if it had actually been taut. Read full review
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