The Gorge
Apple TV+ | Release Date (Streaming): February 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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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
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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
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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
40
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
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