Cross
Prime Video | Release Date: November 14, 2024
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
15
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
RogerEbert.comSherin NicoleNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: This series thrives in its dimensionality, becoming more than a "good adaptation." After years of cinematic efforts to bring a beloved literary character to life, we can finally say "Cross" is killer. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyKristen BaldwinNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Tortured, brilliant hero with an almost supernatural ability to navigate a mental maze of clues and come out the other side with the answer? Check, check, and check. What sets Cross apart, though, is that Watson and his writers treat those tropes as a point of departure rather than home base. Read full review
80
TheWrapRonda Racha PenriceFeb 11, 2026
Season 2 Review: In short, Cross’s sophomore season is a triumph that strengthens audience investment in the series as well as in Hodge’s continual portrayal of the complex detective. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid OpieNov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: Opting for a new mystery welcomes fans and newbies alike to the world of Alex Cross in a successful adaptation that's left us feeling anything but cro… disappointed. Read full review
80
DeciderJoel KellerNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: Cross is a solid crime thriller made very watchable by Hodge’s performance as the title character. Read full review
80
VarietyAramide TinubuNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: “Cross” is largely captivating, but there are a couple of flubs. .... Still, with Hodge at the center and Watkins at the helm, “Cross” is a crime drama boasting several astonishing curveballs. Read full review
80
IGNLuke ReillyNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Alex Cross joins Prime Video’s growing legion of literary badasses in what’s easily the strongest and most faithful adaptation of James Patterson’s bestselling detective series to date. Read full review
70
Screen RantNick BythrowFeb 11, 2026
Season 2 Review: While I'm still more partial to season 1's approach of giving Alex a deeply personal stake in the overall story, season 2 goes all-in on what works for its premise and succeeds. Maybe not to the same extent as season 1, but it's a success nevertheless. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Created by Ben Watkins, the series is solidly made and stylistically straightforward but does suffer a bit from its split personality. .... But above all, Hodge and Mustafa are charismatic performers with an easy rapport that begs for a reteaming. Read full review
70
ColliderNate RichardNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: For those looking for another action-crime series to stream while waiting for new seasons of Reacher and The Night Agent, Cross will surely do the trick. Read full review
68
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewRob OwenNov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: Elements of Amazon Prime Video’s “Cross” make it stand out, but those positive attributes often get canceled out by predictable, unseemly scenes of violence against women. Read full review
63
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Prime’s eight-episode thriller from creator Ben Winter takes a creepy premise and makes it violent and watchable, even if the plot does doughnuts around logic. What saves it is that Hodge and Winters allow novelist James Patterson’s well-known character to be more of an anguished soul than the actors who previously portrayed him. Read full review
60
The Travers TakePeter TraversFeb 13, 2026
Season 2 Review: Aldis Hodge comes back like gangbusters with his definitive take on detective Alex Cross, but the series still can’t figure out to be as killer good as he is. Read full review
60
DeciderJoel KellerFeb 11, 2026
Season 2 Review: STREAM IT, but with reservations. The second season of Cross still has a lot of charm, especially in the relationship between Cross and Sampson, but feels like it’s going to take some time to really find what its primary story is going to be. Read full review
60
ColliderNate RichardFeb 11, 2026
Season 2 Review: Season 2 is entertainingly paced, but outside its lead, nothing about it allows it to stand out from Prime Video's similar offerings. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: Cross frequently crosses the line beyond improbable to incredibly insane, with a series of escalating climaxes that feel like a game of whack-the-perv. On the other hand, it's never boring. [18 Nov - 8 Dec 2024, p.4]
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Undone by the same sort of distension that plagues so many modern television offerings, not to mention a contrived plot that’s as ridiculous as its attempts to straddle the line between celebrating and critiquing cops. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Though Hodge’s grounded center singlehandedly keeps the drama watchable throughout, the material around him is exploitative, frustratingly trashy and absolutely destined to be a hit. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubManuel BetancourtNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Cross’ attempt to both create and critique a TV police procedural that offers a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase between killer and cop comes up short. But that’s not for lack of ambition. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comKaiya ShunyataFeb 11, 2026
Season 2 Review: Abandoned by the show’s narrative as well as the series’ writers, Alex disappears from view, and the show unspools into a run-of-the-mill crime thriller. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneNina MetzNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: Ultimately, the premise is too limited to fill an eight-episode series, and I couldn’t watch the scenes featuring the killer and his victim. They are too frequent. Too miserable. Read full review
50
USA TodayKelly LawlerNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: This version of "Cross," however, seems like all the worst stereotypes about the genre mashed up into a slow, overly long season of television. Read full review
50
TV GuideLiam MathewsNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Cross knows what type of show it wants to be, but it can't commit to going all the way. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Hodge, usually a magnetic performer, settles on a glaring, unmediated intensity. The A plot, in which Cross investigates the murder of a defund-the-police activist, blossoms into a richly nonsensical “Silence of the Lambs”-style fantasia. Common sense is left far behind, in matters large and small. Read full review
40
iNeil ArmstrongNov 14, 2024
Season 1 Review: The result is a frustrating show that swings between compelling drama and hackneyed melodrama – alas, more often the latter. Read full review
40
Radio TimesJames HibbsNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Despite only being eight episodes, the season still feels overlong. The serial killer storyline in particular is dragged out beyond all reason, and even at times when it appears to be coming to a head, a new spanner will be thrown into the works to explain why the renowned detective Cross can't capture the most obvious villain in TV history. Read full review
40
The TelegraphEd PowerNov 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: Ben Watkins’s adaptation, Cross (Amazon Prime Video), downsizes him to television and walks an uneasy line between pulp escapism and social commentary. Read full review
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