The Gorge
Apple TV+ | Release Date (Streaming): February 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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16
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11
Negative:
3
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80
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 13, 2025
What The Gorge does supply is a novel science-fiction premise and some captivating bursts of suspense. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 13, 2025
With leads Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller generating considerable sparks, and violent set pieces that up the supernatural ante one out-there revelation at a time, the director’s latest proves a bonkers B-movie on a big-studio budget. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 14, 2025
Does “Sleepless in Seattle” slathered in supernatural madness sound like a good time? Then dive into “The Gorge," a Whitman’s Sampler of film genres with a delightfully sweet center that belies its freaky packaging. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 14, 2025
It’s a throwback to goofy action movies that don’t get made at this budget level that often anymore, a time when major studios would release an original flick about massive sandworms in the desert or J. Lo and Ice Cube fighting a giant snake. To that end, despite a clunky set-up, “The Gorge” delivers on its potential. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 13, 2025
I’m going to tread lightly so as not to spoil too many of the twists and turns, but I will say it’s not often you experience a film that at times plays like a rom-com from the 1990s spliced with something from the John Carpenter playbook. Read full review
75
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 13, 2025
An unexpectedly romantic movie coming from the 'Sinister' and 'The Black Phone' director, but it’s also a gnarly monster flick with memorable beasties galore. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureNadia DalimonteMar 25, 2026
Anya Taylor-Joy brings a dynamic playfulness and personality to her character. While Miles Teller doesn’t quite match Taylor-Joy’s level of screen presence, the two manage to create fun chemistry and make the most out of an unfocused concept. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsFeb 18, 2025
The script is equal parts juicy and loose, but in the hands of Scott Derrickson, 'The Gorge' is ultimately worth gorging oneself on. Read full review
70
VarietyCourtney HowardFeb 13, 2025
It’s an audacious feat to combine multiple genres into one compelling feature, but The Gorge does just that. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 13, 2025
For all the elaborate weaponry, production design and (eventually) frantic action offered here, this movie crackles most as a lively pas de deux between Taylor-Joy and Teller, who commendably take their material seriously no matter how seriously ridiculous it gets. Read full review
70
SlashfilmJeremy MathaiFeb 13, 2025
Action junkies, horror fiends, and romance enthusiasts have seen all of this done before and done better, sure. But it's a rare kind of gem that even attempts to pack all of these disparate elements into the same package. It's an even greater (dare I say pleasant) surprise that the last group will be the one walking away most satisfied by this, when all's said and done. Read full review
70
IGNA.A. Dowd Feb 13, 2025
Even when The Gorge disappears into generic run-and-shoot action, it benefits from the colorful confidence of Derrickson’s staging and a ’50s-inflected sci-fi score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. At its worst, this solid genre exercise still looks worthy of the theatrical release Apple didn’t grant it. Read full review
67
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerFeb 13, 2025
Despite or maybe because of its unusual, constant-reset rhythms, large swaths of the movie actually work. It helps that Derrickson has two genuine stars on his side in the form of Teller and Taylor-Joy who both, lacking an infrastructure for proper romantic comedies, channel that energy into an unusually convincing version of a romance that would normally be obligatory at best. Read full review
64
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 13, 2025
The Gorge is half a smouldering romance, half a zombified venture into overkilled horror-movie tropes. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 13, 2025
Overall, I found the film to be somewhat disappointing – another instance of a streaming service pouring big screen dollars into a project of only middling quality. Read full review
63
ObserverEmily ZemlerFeb 13, 2025
The Gorge is chaotic and fun, despite some narrative and design hiccups. It’s too bad it’s not heading for the big screen. This is the sort of thing you want to experience with a lively audience with the sound turned all the way up. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinFeb 13, 2025
The spirit of the drive-in is strong in this trashy mash-up, though it’s best appreciated as an unlikely romance, where love and poetry somehow blossom amid heavy gunfire and monster rampages. Read full review
60
Screen RantAlex HarrisonFeb 13, 2025
While The Gorge is (ironically) fairly shallow, it offers some strikingly designed genre thrills and is powered by two charismatic stars. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkFeb 19, 2025
For a solid hour or so, the film is patient and tense, with just the right touches of levity and romance. Until, suddenly, it isn’t. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 13, 2025
Plot is often the cruelest fate that could ever befall a cool premise, and so it goes with Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge, a high-concept genre exercise whose shallow depths are all too eager to come to the surface. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 13, 2025
An extended rom-com meet-cute that just happens to have monsters lurking about, The Gorge works best when its just the two leads staring at each through binoculars, bantering via sketch-pad scrawlings and letting their flirtations organically morph something more intimate. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeFeb 13, 2025
Derrickson offers a handful of memorable shots and genuine jump scares, but the director’s attempts to build dread in these moments come too late to have their intended impact. With so much of the film dedicated to establishing Levi and Drasa’s backstory and their romance, The Gorge is slow to get going on the action. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerFeb 13, 2025
It’s kind of fun in just how predictable and boilerplate it all is, and The Gorge is never boring. But, frustratingly, it’s obvious that there is a better movie hidden somewhere within it. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 13, 2025
You just have to hope for some fun along the way. The movie delivers that every now and then, but not nearly enough. Bigger! Dumber! Something! I’d settle for just better. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeFeb 14, 2025
There are touches of above-average streaming craft here, distancing it from the standard Netflix equivalent – an indistinctive yet solid score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, some grand cinematography from Guillermo del Toro fave Dan Laustsen – but the film bears too much of that synthetic Apple feel, as if it was primarily made to show off the abilities of a new iPhone. Read full review
40
LooperAudrey FoxFeb 13, 2025
Although it has some bright spots, even flickers of chemistry between its stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, it's let down by repetitive action sequences, an uninspiring reveal, and dialogue that feels as though it was written by ChatGPT. Read full review
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ColliderTherese LacsonFeb 13, 2025
What saves this movie is Taylor-Joy and Teller. Though their in-person scenes aren't nearly as endearing as their scenes with each other across the gorge, the two do have great chemistry. They're interesting to watch together, especially during their action scenes. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 14, 2025
Director Scott Derrickson ensures the action beats are solid enough, that the production design is CGI-assisted gloomy and that the stars looked good in whatever light, fight choreography or romantic interlude they were placed. Read full review
38
The Associated PressJake CoyleFeb 13, 2025
The tonal swings, not to mention the gloss that covers the whole enterprise, make “The Gorge” an intriguing but empty genre mash-up and streaming-only exercise. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezFeb 14, 2025
In the depths of the abyss below, The Gorge mostly turns into a high-concept action film that’s so dull, predictable and ugly to look at it’s extremely easy to tune out and have your mind go on autopilot while the otherwise charismatic Teller and Taylor-Jones are wasted. Read full review
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