Nearly 30 years later, Twister has aged into a pleasant memory of when middlebrow action fare for adults ruled the box office.

| Jan 22, 2025

The sum of its great and hokey parts is very entertaining to watch, and even its flaws are enjoyable because nothing about the film feels cynical or pandering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2024

Think of Twister as the multiplex version of a porn flick: You have to sit through stretches of uneven acting, stale plotting, and dumb dialogue to get to the good stuff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2024

It lacks any interesting characters or drama. Like an amusement park ride, its ups and downs ultimately peter out, leaving the viewer with little more than a momentary buzz or two to remember.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2024

A true marvel of '90s movie magic that still holds up nearly 30 years later.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 22, 2024

Jan de Bont's 1996 action classic is an absurd snapshot of Hollywood's delirious past, and it's still just as fun nearly three decades later.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The original endures not just because of solid special effects and earned sincerity alongside spectacle. Its resonance comes from witnessing people come together to move the needle in a better direction away from disasters threatening to consume us all.

| Jul 18, 2024

...transforms nature into the ultimate predator of man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2024

Anchored by an amazing array of character actors, state of the art FX and a surprising variety of action set pieces, Twister is quite possibly one of the best, most entertaining summer blockbusters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2024

A wondrous reminder that, sometimes, it's nice to fool with Mother Nature. From the safety of your theater seat, that is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

It's fast, it's ferocious and it's also very funny. Even as it takes your breath away, this film makes you laugh your head off.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 16, 2024

Twister swirls in as the first of the big summer movies, a beautifully shot action picture with heart-stopping effects. It's by and for adrenaline junkies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

A thrill ride that engages the brain and solar plexus simultaneously. As summer movies go, Twister has the stuff to blow them all away.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 16, 2024

It's a grand, thrilling subject. But the movie doesn't really treat its theme seriously. Instead, as directed by Jan De Bont and co-written and co-produced by Michael Crichton, Twister is unabashed entertainment, an undemanding, full-speed-ahead joyride.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

Twister outdoes Jurassic Park in its lack of narrative momentum, its incoherent logic, and its utter contempt for characterisation.

| Jul 16, 2024

In the wrong hands apocalypse can be deadly -- deadly dull, that is -- but when it comes to cheap thrills, Jan De Bont is up there with the best.

| Jul 16, 2024

Twister is everything people want in a movie that comes with air conditioning. It's visually spectacular and as wild and loud a ride as any amusement park stomach-churner.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2024

Jan De Bont's excruciatingly loud, spectacularly dumb, visually astonishing and exhaustingly exciting direction of a Steven Spielberg production touches all the right bases as the first of the summer's blockbusters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2024

Its plot can be summarized in four words: Separated scientists chase tornadoes. But the special effects, by John Frazier and Industrial Light and Magic, thrust Twister into the must-see class.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

Within the funnel of Twister's exciting illogic and formula humanity -- created by the extraordinarily successful and equally insubstantial Michael Crichton -- lies a lot of standard-issue stuff.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024