The Woman in Cabin 10
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 10, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
7

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiOct 16, 2025
From the opening scenes, The Woman in Cabin 10 hooks us and doesn’t let go. Read full review
70
ColliderTania HussainOct 10, 2025
Smart, stylish, and suspenseful, The Woman in Cabin 10 works in large part because of Knightley’s performance. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeOct 10, 2025
This is Hitchcock lite, with a great leading lady and a story that doesn’t overstay its welcome. It may not be the kind of film that lingers after it’s done, but for a good trip, rather than a long trip, it’s worth climbing aboard. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandOct 10, 2025
It might seem a bit showy and cheesy in its final moments, but that kind of over-the-top shock is missing from most of the rest of the film. It’s a thriller missing the thrills, and we’ll take them where we can get them. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 14, 2025
There’s enough suspense to keep an itchy trigger finger from changing the channel but viewers hoping for more won’t find it here. Read full review
50
LooperAlistair RyderOct 10, 2025
It speeds through the plot beats so fast, in fact, that it never properly allows you to take part in the murder mystery guessing game for yourself, barely developing its characters beyond the one note they're introduced on, so the question of a motive becomes an irrelevance to anybody watching. Read full review
50
The New York TimesLisa KennedyOct 10, 2025
A body isn’t the only thing that goes overboard here. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOct 10, 2025
Australian theater and film director Simon Stone’s blandly glossy, capably acted adaptation, co-written with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, is mostly a pedestrian affair that waits until the denouement to crank up the suspense and show some teeth. Read full review
50
VarietyCourtney HowardOct 10, 2025
The sleek production design, symphonic score and performances from a killer ensemble act as a life preserver, making the shenanigans at sea a little less choppy. Read full review
50
Next Best PictureSara ClementsOct 10, 2025
Despite its flaws, the cast, while underused, is a powerhouse, especially Knightley, who remains magnetic. It’s just that “The Woman in Cabin 10” never manages to transcend its setup. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonOct 10, 2025
This critic is a sucker for Ms. Knightley, so please disregard anything here that sounds remotely positive. Because it really is a ludicrous exercise, the kind one hopes was fun for the actors because the results are so wacky, and the cast so prestigious. Read full review
40
Radio TimesTerry StauntonOct 10, 2025
The pity is that one look at the cast list promises riches that never surface; these are hugely talented actors feeding on the scraps of a solid premise made stagnant by the screenplay’s myriad shortcomings. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyOct 10, 2025
Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10 is Agatha Christie for the age of mindless scrolling. It’s a murder mystery that only works if you’re not really paying attention, and are happy in the fact the characters on screen aren’t really either. Read full review
40
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 10, 2025
A thriller in name only, it has all the grace and cunning of an anvil to the head. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 10, 2025
It sounds fun on the face of it, and the sheer silliness of the situation almost keeps it afloat, but the cardboard quality of the drama gets soggy. Read full review
39
PolygonJesse HassengerOct 23, 2025
The whole story hinges on a twist that’s superficially clever on paper but wildly farfetched in practice. Once that hinge has swung, Stone ratchets up the supposed tension with attempted murders, scuffles, chases, and confrontations. Yet as these attempts at excitement emerge, the movie itself flattens out. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 20, 2025
They assembled a cast worthy of a “Death on the Nile” variation set in a fjord. But director and co-writer Simon Stone, who did a fine job with Carey Mulligan’s “The Dig,” is utterly at sea in this genre. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldOct 15, 2025
A soggy thriller in which every scene, even a daytime one early on at the newspaper where Lo works, seems to take place in ominously blue darkness. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonOct 10, 2025
The moving parts of this thriller are subservient to nailing plot points down on a bulletin of perfectly wound red twine. On account of this, “The Woman in Cabin 10” entertains enough to pass the time, but certainly doesn’t thrill. Read full review
35
TheWrapMatt GoldbergOct 10, 2025
The film aspires to be yet another eat-the-rich parable in our time of oligarchs, and while there’s no rule that these stories need to be dark comedies, they should at least aspire to have some kind of personality. Read full review
30
The Travers TakePeter TraversOct 11, 2025
Ruth Ware’s murder-at-sea bestseller is star powered by Keira Knightley, but this water-logged whodunit sinks like a stone. Read full review
20
iFrancesca SteeleOct 16, 2025
This dazzling array of top tier actors have to spend most of their time discussing how bonkers the totally sane Lo seems, and so they never get past two-dimensional characterisation no matter how hard they try. Read full review
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