I can enjoy dad movies. It’s why I keep falling for Liam Neeson or Gerard Butler movies even though I really should have learned my lesson the last 65 times. But even a dad movie – scratch that, any movie – has to have a cohesive flow.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 6, 2025

Writers and directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods put a lot on the film’s shoulders. They got butts in the theater with the sci fi action premise, but the heart of the film is a thin, trite indie drama about grief and finding a reason to continue to live.

| Jun 2, 2024

It was the worst of times, it was the end of times. For the characters anyway. Not as bad I had heard, 65 is improved by the performances and also the constant pummelling that pre-historic Earth doles out to poor old Mills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2024

...a pared-down premise that’s employed to mostly compelling (and periodically spellbinding) effect...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2023

Watches so much like an adaptation of a classic pulp dime novel...

| Dec 25, 2023

65 may not be as refined or ravishing as the other survival thrillers or sci-fi adventures, but if you’re tired of mush and masculinity, this may be a slightly different experience.

| Nov 27, 2023

Silly but too serious, kinda exciting and pretty familiar.

| Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2023

Wasted potential with an excellent lead, dinosaur mayhem & nice sci-fi gadgets.

| Aug 16, 2023

The limited cast of two major players and a script that allows for little flexibility leaves the production as just being bland.

| Original Score: C | Aug 9, 2023

65 is as unimaginative and predictable as anticipated, only even less entertaining and far more bland. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt try their best. A dinosaur flick this uninteresting should be considered a cinephilic crime.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 21, 2023

A no-frills, no-thrills dud.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 6, 2023

65 should only be recommended after one has run out of films to watch, which might not be for many years.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 5, 2023

A passable sci-fi survival adventure pushes a thin premise to a mercifully short end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2023

Driver is always very good no matter what role he takes on, whether it is a spaceship pilot battling dinosaurs or Darth Vader's grandson battling the force and the inner conflict that wages war inside him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2023

The whole desperate dad thing gets wearisome as if the movie were conscientiously telling lonely 9-year-olds how much their absent work-junkie fathers actually love them. Which it is. Driver’s big salary-earning business trip isn’t happening “to you."

| May 29, 2023

It’s maybe too slim and uninspired for its own good, but it’s quick enough to where you aren’t all that bothered by the time spent with it.

| May 27, 2023

Driver makes it all stick. It’s his first lead role in the action hero genre, and he adds depth and nuance to a thinly written role. We don’t know much about Mills, but the actor keeps us plugged in due to his ability to elevate material.

| Original Score: B | Apr 27, 2023

Confusingly bland and riddled with plot holes, 65 doesn’t give its talented lead much to work with.

| Apr 21, 2023

Dreary, under-developed wannabe sci-fi action adventure that strives for suspense but plays like the kind of grade B-creature feature that used to be drive-in theater fare.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 19, 2023

With excellent, double-strength VFX and whole-hearted embrace of B-movie aesthetics, 65 is terrific entertainment with outstanding action cinematography giving the film a visual polish that sits several grades above what we typically see in Marvel films.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2023