Twisters
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 19, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 57 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
23
Negative:
1
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60
Rolling StoneDavid FearJul 17, 2024
Unlike most revisits of previous box-office hits, it doesn’t rely on nostalgia for the original. It does, however, display a serious soft spot for a bygone era of moviegoing, when two photogenic stars, a simple high-concept premise and the promise of digitally rendered chaos was enough to put millions of asses in seats. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 17, 2024
Twisters feels no need to offer footnotes and variation on its predecessor. It’s a big fat summer movie in its own right. And that’s something these days. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenJul 16, 2024
With its peppy cast, streamlined story and about a bazillion pixels’ worth of VFX cyclones to sweep you back in your seat, it’s a fun and refreshingly old-school night at the pictures. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 10, 2024
Staring up at the tornadoes in Twisters, I felt like I’d already seen something exactly like them — and that when it comes to footage of actual tornadoes, I’d already seen something more incredible. Twisters, fun as parts of it are, is a movie where reality ultimately takes a lot of the wind out of its gales. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJul 10, 2024
Twisters gets the job done in terms of whipping up life-threatening tornadoes that leave a trail of wreckage in their wake. But the extent to which all this is conjured with a digital paintbox lessens the pulse-quickening awe of nature at its most destructive. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberJul 10, 2024
Twisters isn't bad, but a braver film might have admitted that addressing the causes of extreme weather might be more useful than throwing nappies at it. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 10, 2024
Twisters is a fun film with some big setpiece scenes, and Ramos and Powell make gallant admirers for Kate. I do think though that the movies still haven’t given Edgar-Jones – so excellent in TV’s Normal People – the well-written big-screen role she deserves. Some spectacular stormy weather, though. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMatt SchimkowitzJul 18, 2024
The plug-and-play plot is predictable, but as in the original, Twisters is a functional thrill ride driven by charismatic, believable performances. Read full review
58
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJul 16, 2024
By minimizing its predecessor’s goofiness in favor of vacuous character drama, winds up only sporadically kicking into gale-force gear. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerJul 18, 2024
Twisters is, at best, pretty fun—a decidedly breezy two hours. It has thrills, and chills, and Glen Powell doing his darndest to bring the concept of “movie star” back into the year 2024. Read full review
55
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Radheyan SimonpillaiJul 18, 2024
The sequel to Twister – which pluralizes the title, while following the same beats as its predecessor – is serviceable. But it also misses what made director Jan de Bont’s disaster spectacle such chaotic fun to begin with. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJul 23, 2024
The love affair part of the film is so wholesomely family-oriented that it’s about as sexy as an algebra book. There isn’t even one single kiss. Fortunately, the action sequences are nothing bland or dull, adding up to a whale of entertainment. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsJul 19, 2024
Powell's screen presence is undeniable. Unfortunately, so is the lethal lack of confidence with which 'Twisters' tends to present itself. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJul 19, 2024
This impersonal exaltation of heroic exploits leaves an unexplored dilemma at the foundation of the film. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 18, 2024
Twisters is set to be one of the biggest hits of the summer, with a budget that convinced two studios to share the cost and distribution. But that lack of the human touch lowers the stakes, minimized the suspense and left me cold. The effects are next generation impressive, but they’ve been getting steadily better in the tornado movies between Twister and Twisters. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 17, 2024
The last 15 minutes of “Twisters” are so much fun that they might easily convince viewers that they’ve seen a good movie. So this leaves you with a choice: Is it worth suffering through a boring hour and a so-so half hour, just to see an entertaining opening and a genuinely exciting finish? I know what I’d say (nope), but this is one you’ll have to decide for yourself. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 17, 2024
The opening sequence/prologue is gripping but that’s the only aspect of Twisters that works on its intended level. I was not blown away. Read full review
50
CNNBrian LowryJul 17, 2024
A vehicle with roughly the weight of a stiff breeze. Read full review
50
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJul 16, 2024
Unlike a Ryan Coogler, who always brought an emotional, thoughtful touch to his superhero films, all of the empathetic grace notes Chung was previously known for are nowhere to be found, drowned out in a wet, soggy tempest of noise, screams, yee haws! and catastrophic weather. Read full review
50
Little White LiesHannah StrongJul 16, 2024
That emotional core is missing in Twisters, even with a few stabs at highlighting the human cost of America’s inadequate tornado warning and damage mitigation systems. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 10, 2024
Chung’s desire to add a touch of realism runs counter to what is, essentially, a low-nutrition entertainment about massive storms wreaking havoc on small towns and scooping up anything in their path. The more Twisters aims for gravitas, the more hot air it generates. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJul 18, 2024
Heavy-handed and stuffed with cardboard characters, everything about Twisters save for Powell feels like a pale imitation of what made the original such an unexpected smash of a disaster movie. Lightning definitely does not strike twice. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJul 17, 2024
That compulsion to reverse engineer serious stakes for a fundamentally frivolous story is Twisters’ most contemporary quality and its most irritating. Read full review
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