Sirât
Neon | Release Date: November 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMar 5, 2026
When the real shock occurs, it doesn’t feel cosmic so much as deliberate manipulation by a filmmaker’s hand. The rhythm feels off. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMay 19, 2025
Ironically, Sirat gets muddled near the end. Although the last act is in many ways the liveliest — viewers will be jolted by a series of bleak twists — it’s also where Laxe relinquishes narrative coherence in the service of making his metaphors more literal. Read full review
60
ColliderEmma KielyMay 19, 2025
Laxe is aiming to shock the audience, and in that, he succeeds, but the final product suffers as a result. Read full review
55
TheWrapSteve PondMay 19, 2025
Sirât is bold in its depiction of a decaying world in which some people can still find release. But its insistent brutality feels less bold than exhausting, and the question asked by one of the characters – “Is this what the end of the world feels like?” – has an easy answer: Hell, yeah. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 26, 2025
Sirāt is a path to nowhere, an improvised spectacle in the Sahara; it is very impressive in the opening 10 minutes but valueless as it proceeds, and a pointless mirage of unearned emotion. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesNov 14, 2025
Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe—a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it. Read full review
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