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 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
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