The premise doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and the narrative can be jarringly slow-paced.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 31, 2023

65 is a gruesome thing to watch, even for dinosaur lovers—and not much fun, either.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 20, 2023

Driver gives a Driver-level performance and it’s a tight 90 minutes. And those two aspects alone are enough for a passable dino actioner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2023

65 is essentially a big-budget version of a simple, made-for-streaming creature feature, nothing more and nothing less.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2023

The revelation that accompanies the title card for Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ 65 all but demands a hearty guffaw, except this is a film that knows little of humor.

| Mar 17, 2023

While there’s not enough outer space to call it an intergalactic odyssey and barely enough dino havoc, 65 has just the right amount of vigor to survive its relatively short runtime.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2023

It wasn’t enough! Whatever they paid Adam Driver for holding this feeble movie together, it wasn’t enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2023

Entirely forgettable, partially nonsensical sci-fi fare.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2023

... A short, sharp, largely original major studio movie, unbound to any franchise or intellectual property — at a time when such a concept is being threatened with extinction. Also, it has a T-Rex in it. Sometimes, that’s enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2023

It’s the serious tone and repetitiveness that unmoors a lot of what works about 65.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2023

Terrific GGI monsters, swampy scares and Driver’s committed performance make 65 a snap-toothed popcorn multiplex movie which, at 93 minutes, is sprightly in comparison with its lumbering rivals.

| Mar 11, 2023

It’s not schlocky enough to be so-bad-it’s-good and nowhere near good enough to be taken even a tiny bit seriously.

| Mar 11, 2023

There’s a reason such films have, in theatrical terms, been pushed to the brink of extinction, and 65 represents such an uninspired effort as to look like a fossil even before the credits roll.

| Mar 11, 2023

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, shot this mid-budget action-thriller mid-Covid, cleaving to that kind of B-movie template, and aiming, but failing, to match those emotional stakes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2023

This loony, murky and muddled sci-fi action semi-thriller takes a detour through B-Movie Lane in a film that isn’t compelling enough to make for silly popcorn entertainment but isn’t terrible enough to be labeled a disaster,

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2023

There’s nothing to these characters, and the action sequences quickly grow repetitive and wearisome.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2023

Think “Gilligan’s Island.” Not because it’s like “65.” Just because it’s more entertaining than “65.”

| Mar 10, 2023

"65" is set millions of years in the prehistoric past—and its ideas are only slightly younger.

| Mar 10, 2023

Anchored by another in a series of committed performances from Adam Driver and an ensemble of suitably menacing prehistoric beasts, Beck and Woods’ adventure delivers requisite thrills even if its creativity seems stuck in the distant cinematic past.

| Mar 10, 2023

Not cheesy enough to be fun/bad nor awesome enough to compete with the “Jurassic” movies of the world...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2023