Terminal
RLJE Films | Release Date: May 11, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 8, 2018
Veteran second unit director Vaughn Stein (“World War Z,” “Sherlock Holmes”) had access to talent and to people who could finance a film, and proves adept at managing a cohesive, distinct look and feel. But his inept story and fumbling efforts to connect the disparate threads of a tale no one cares about make his actors look bad. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMay 10, 2018
Vaughn Stein's Terminal blends tropes from several sorts of crime flicks into a soundstagey affair that's more brittle than hard-boiled. Read full review
30
Village VoiceApril WolfeMay 9, 2018
Compounding the manic energy of the editing is dialogue that muses mostly on long-winded ideas that don’t lend themselves to any kind of visual representation. Read full review
25
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonMay 9, 2018
Drawing from a host of late-nineties influences but doing nothing with them, Terminal is little more than a shallow exercise in dated crime movie pastiche. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 7, 2018
Vaughn Stein’s Terminal takes a mess of dead tropes and Frankensteins them together into an crime saga that’s in desperate need of brains. And a soul. And a story. Read full review
25
The Film StageChristopher SchobertMay 7, 2018
Terminal is destined to be forgotten. However, if the cast, the look, and the wacky storyline intrigue, it might be worth a viewing. While it’s far from the so-bad-its-good category, the few oddities contained within may delight a few curious audience members. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineJake ColeMay 7, 2018
Terminal's actors are awkward and stiff in trying to project hard-boiled cool, and all while delivering lines that sound as if they had been passed multiple times through an online translation tool. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 11, 2018
What’s Terminal about? It’s about 90 minutes. That’s a cheap shot, but since the film doesn’t establish a baseline of reality, it’s hard to pick out a premise. It’s a series of playlets stitched together with the seams hanging out. Read full review
20
TheWrapInkoo KangMay 10, 2018
Like a teen’s journal, writer-director Vaughn Stein’s debut feature is a scrapbook stuffed with allusions. The fondness is clear. But the resulting compilation is self-indulgent twaddle. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMay 10, 2018
Featuring more twists than a 1960s dance marathon, Terminal is a flashy, hyperstylized bore. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 11, 2018
Yes, you read that correctly: zero stars. When talented people create one of the worst movies ever made, you have to ask: What the hell happened? Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedMay 11, 2018
A turgid, pretentious, and incomprehensible existential joke. What a star on the rise is doing in it is a question mark for the archives. Read full review
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