Sacrifice
Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 13, 2025
A propulsive (and hilarious) comedy that gradually melts into a dreamlike (and not so hilarious) modern fable, this hyper-stylized whatsit might be at its best when shooting fish in a barrel, but Gavras’ film is much less interested in poking fun at easy targets than it is in leveraging its characters — terrorist and hostage alike — towards unformed ideas about truth, performance, and the cleansing power of death in the face of a society so ego-driven that it’s impossible to tell the difference between heroes and clowns. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 24, 2025
There’s a virtuosity to Gavras’ filmmaking, which yields some surprising laughs and thrills along the way. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 13, 2025
As a ridiculous tale of a celebrity trying to make himself matter, Sacrifice is quite a bit of fun, but any attempt to make a larger point falls flat, just like so many films before it. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 13, 2025
Rambunctiously riffing on celebrity, activism, technology and economic inequality, this dark satire works best when the director’s swirl of images achieves a hypnotic, primal rush. At other times, Sacrifice is as muddled as the terrorists’ plan. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonSep 13, 2025
The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull. Read full review
50
The Film StageEthan VestbySep 13, 2025
The film is ultimately too sentimental and not acidic enough because it can never really bear itself to bring down the world from which it’s borne. If there’s a point to which it feels more like an unfunny inside joke than anything, perhaps that’s the grim reality of the world we face: it can’t bring itself to make the actual sacrifice and solve the problem. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganSep 13, 2025
Void of righteousness, indignation, or even straight-up nihilism, Sacrifice won’t cause even the most malleable of worldviews to waver. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 13, 2025
Messy, strange, and somewhat baffling, Gavras’ film is chaos personified. For this sometimes funny film, I wish that were a good thing. Read full review
40
Next Best PictureGiovanni LagoSep 13, 2025
Gavras awkwardly swaps politically charged potency in exchange for an unmemorable satirical take-down of those contributing to our planet’s ongoing environmental destruction. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 13, 2025
Gavras leaves them and us stranded on the way to his out-there ending. Read full review
33
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonSep 16, 2025
Credit where credit is due, Sacrifice ultimately made me seriously consider the prospect of death while watching it. However, this mostly came from a desire for it all to end so we no longer had to keep enduring the inescapably vapid and shallow film unraveling before us. Read full review
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