Dean Devlin finally steps out from Roland Emmerich's shadow with a tight, twisty little thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

The debut director Dean Devlin clearly has Hitchcockian pretensions, even if the sleazy thrills he offers lunge closer towards torture porn.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

What is David Tennant doing in this fantastically charmless and unpleasant film?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Bad Samaritan is a well-directed thriller with knuckle-chewing suspense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2018

The former 'Doctor Who' star David Tennant enlivens this stock thriller about scam artists and serial torturers - but it's still a mess. Tennant deserves better. So do audiences.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2018

A thief breaks into the house of a serial killer. He doesn't know what to do next, and neither does the movie.

| May 4, 2018

While Bad Samaritan isn't exactly a good film, it is weirdly charming, thanks to its creators' exuberant commitment to unabashedly tacky ideas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2018

A few plot contrivances aside, the unspectacular Bad Samaritan is tense and disturbing enough, and worth its weight in popcorn.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 4, 2018

"Bad Samaritan" isn't trying to be steak, it's a burger and fries at a greasy diner. But sometimes that's what you crave, and "Bad Samaritan" hits the spot.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2018

There's frightfully little atmosphere to this film - anything from creepy sound design to evocative cinematography - rendering the flaws in the story all too visible.

| May 4, 2018

Plays like an unambitious episode of "Black Mirror"...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 4, 2018

An audaciously wacky film, and the filmmakers manage to get a few things just right.

| May 3, 2018

The main issue is that we're not given enough context to understand the characters' motivations or care much about their eventual fates.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2018

"Bad Samaritan" is a horrible little movie with two things going for it: one wigged-out performance and one genuinely terrific line that's so great, you want to be able to say that it saves the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2018

Not even the former Time Lord's sliver of a grin can save it from slipping and sliding out of your memory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2018

A pretty slick thriller that proves, if nothing else, that not enough films are shot in Portland, Ore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2018

This comparatively low-budget effort represents a marked improvement from Devlin's debut theatrical feature, Geostorm, which was among last year's very worst films.

| Original Score: C+ | May 3, 2018

It's all thoroughly unpleasant, but then, that's what audiences for this kind of movie want from the experience, so consider it a success of sorts.

| May 3, 2018

Bad Samaritan could have been a gem, if only it had put as much effort into its story as its setup.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2018

Devlin...handles the proceedings like Adrian Lyne (who directed "Fatal Attraction") on HGH supplements (and divested of over a third of Mr. Lyne's visual elegance, such as it is).

| May 2, 2018