Roofman
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 10, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
IGNMichael CalabroOct 16, 2025
Roofman’s excellent performances are hampered by a middling script that’s executed with minimal visual flair or excitement. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreOct 15, 2025
The sympathy Roofman extends toward the break room of its big-box stores and the low-ceilinged place of worship where Leigh sings in the choir every Sunday is more moving than its treatment of its protagonist, offering an appreciation that these places could be anywhere and at the same time are highly specific. Read full review
60
The Travers TakePeter TraversOct 11, 2025
Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst find the heart but not the soul in a true-life crime drama that should have cut deeper and hurt more. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanOct 9, 2025
Here is a protagonist who clearly straddles the line between right and wrong; the trouble is that in Roofman, that line wobbles, leaving the movie somewhere between a fun-loving caper and a finger-wagging morality tale. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 8, 2025
Roofman sidesteps this tale’s most potentially fascinating elements to sell a more conventional narrative. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 7, 2025
Another, more textured film might have tried to paint him as more than just lovable rogue but Roofman is too focused on making us feel good rather than bad. I would have settled for conflicted. Read full review
58
IndieWireKatie RifeSep 6, 2025
Roofman is more of a slog than a romp, largely because of an extended 119-minute run time that still leaves many of its juiciest elements unexplored. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 14, 2025
The movie makes a variety of changes to Jeffrey’s story to make it more cinematic, but without the kind of narrative reworking needed to streamline the material, the result feels unfocused and shapeless. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithOct 10, 2025
The laughs, the warmth, the love and the faith-based fellowship die out in the dismal final act. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonOct 7, 2025
If only this movie were as interesting as the truth. Tatum’s sparkling charm can only take him so far; the script, by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn, spends way too much time on a romantic subplot filled with sitcom scenarios and uninteresting characters. Read full review
50
The Film MavenKristen LopezOct 3, 2025
It is Channing Tatum who keeps the audience riveted to Roofman, even when the script gives him a gaggle of underwritten characters to work opposite. Read full review
50
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonSep 12, 2025
An engaging enough dramatization of the true story of a man who became known for spending months hiding out in a Toys “R” Us to escape capture after robbing businesses by coming in through their roofs, Derek Cianfrance’s “Roofman” is also a regrettably safe film defined by missed opportunities that ultimately steals any deeper resonances it could find right out from under you. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMark HansonSep 10, 2025
The real Jeffrey Manchester may in fact have been polite, but Derek Cianfrance’s film doesn’t convince you that it needed to be as well. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesSep 8, 2025
Ultimately, “Roofman” is a slick but incurious film that is so preoccupied with showing the what of Manchester’s story that it doesn’t bother to examine the why. Read full review
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