Slingshot
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: August 30, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The GuardianPhil HoadOct 30, 2024
It labours for an hour to find its own thematic core, but as the psychological pieces accumulate, the film starts to exert an inexorable pull in its exploration of cognitive dissonance and mental illness. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 28, 2024
It’s a somber, serious experience that won’t appeal to everybody, but it’s quite smart and will keep you guessing until its last seconds. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 28, 2024
The Swedish director Mikael Håfström, whose best-known American film is the chilling 2007 Stephen King adaptation “1408,” employs jump scares and quick cuts to capture the looming sense of danger (or is it paranoia?) aboard the ship, while the screenplay by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker takes the story back and forth between the present-day unraveling on Odyssey-1 and flashbacks on Earth. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithAug 29, 2024
Though on the surface Slingshot looks like a space-exploration thriller with many cinematic forebears, it makes elegant use of misdirection. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 26, 2024
In the context of COVID, Slingshot becomes something else, transforming from what would have been a decent but derivative sci-fi thinker into a stirring ode to the vital importance of others. Read full review
60
Screen RantBen GibbonsAug 30, 2024
It delivers a beautiful and promising dressing before unveiling a largely by-the-book story. It is not bad by any means, but it doesn't push the envelope or explore anything new, either. Slingshot is a pleasant watch, but it doesn't ever rise above that. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAug 29, 2024
The result feels more like a B-grade thriller that’s been elevated by a good cast and a script with some clever moves. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 3, 2024
A problem with this movie, as is too-often the case with productions set within the confines of a space craft/capsule, is that the filmmakers don’t trust the inherent dangers and claustrophobia of the situation to be sufficiently suspenseful. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 30, 2024
There’s just simply nothing to hook into aside from Fishburne’s performance, which is the only captivating element of the film, and even that is derivative of his iconic Morpheus from “The Matrix.” Despite its many twists and turns, Slingshot shows no signs of life. Read full review
50
ColliderChase HutchinsonAug 30, 2024
Slingshot is more of a murky mystery where the big revelations don't hold up under scrutiny. Read full review
50
Washington PostTy BurrAug 29, 2024
The tension on the ship keeps accelerating in a straight and dramatically unsurprising line until the final scenes of “Slingshot,” at which point the twists come piling in, one after another, each shocker nullified by the next. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 29, 2024
If Slingshot leaned into that character study, rather than roughly gaffer-taping it to a deep space thriller, maybe it wouldn’t stall out on the launch pad so badly. Read full review
40
The New York TimesBrandon YuAug 29, 2024
The paranoia sets in all too quickly in this awkwardly paced thriller, and it’s among a handful of defects in a film whose creative process seemed to begin and end with its final twist in mind, haphazardly and unconvincingly working backward to construct what’s necessary to build up to i Read full review
35
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanSep 9, 2024
Since Håfström and his crew stick their landing, those who particularly enjoy second-hand claustrophobia may find it worth the long journey. Everyone else, however, will be better served by more engaging enterprises here on Earth. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 30, 2024
Consistently boring in a manner that almost feels defiant, “Slingshot” plays as a shallow COVID lockdown allegory for most of its runtime, before insultingly spiraling off the rails. It feels like a movie that hates its characters. And hates you too. Read full review
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