Ultimately, its roar is muted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

In light and dark, dry and wet, peaceful and pouncing, the critters— entirely CG from my understanding—might be the most realistically rendered animals since 2019’s Lion King.

| Jul 16, 2024

Beast is an effective B-movie thriller that overcomes its mediocre writing with well-shot sequences and a solid lead performance by Idris Elba.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 12, 2024

The cast is better than the film deserves and has terrific chemistry – deft at making themselves than likable enough to hope they survive, stupid enough to punch a CGI lion (yeah, not smart).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2024

The narrative structure of this type of stories is always the same, only the animal in question changes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 9, 2024

Not every movie is going to change your life. Some of them just have movie stars fighting a creature they could not possibly fight in real life. But, in many of these cases, the movie is just fun.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 28, 2024

Though peopled with characters behaving irrationally, this Baltasar Kormákur directorial is enjoyable in an economic, bare-bones way.

| Oct 4, 2023

Beast is filled with appreciation for South Africa and plenty of fun action scenes, but its script stops it from reaching its true potential.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2023

Easiest way to put it… this is surprisingly good. For a 90 minute thriller you’ll find some wicked intense shots that give you a ton of anxiety! Idris Elba sells this entire concept in an exciting way & there’s even a bit of emotion to it all!

| Jul 25, 2023

There's some fun to be had with the action sequences when the mayhem starts but there's quite a lot that is just plain silly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2023

So, accepting the absence of thematic content and realistic portrayals of the natural world such films inevitably must be somewhat about themselves and how they were made. And Beast is made with a degree of elegance that’s wholly unexpected...

| Feb 7, 2023

Beast is one of those action films that you have to suspend believe & hold on for the ride with you friend or family member. Elba plays a father of two caught in the worst case scenario where a Lion is hunting them. Its as cringy as it is entertaining

| Original Score: D | Dec 26, 2022

...fares best in its compelling and periodically enthralling first half...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 16, 2022

…Beast is passable Saturday night fare, but despite a lot of hard work on the technical side, this lion doesn’t make much of a roar…

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2022

For much of its slim running time, Beast does what it’s supposed to do, right down to the buzzy moments of silliness where it bravely, too briefly heads over the top.

| Oct 29, 2022

It’s not the most robust cinematic meal, but as a style exercise, it earns a modest place among the rest of the pride.

| Oct 25, 2022

Everything in this action thriller seems real. So, of course, that makes the thrills extra chillier.

| Oct 20, 2022

The escalation of terror is genuinely exciting until the movie bogs down in CGI absurdity instead of reasonably credible survival.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2022

Beast is not a great movie. Some may even say it’s terrible. Where the movie flounders is when director Baltasar Kormákur attempts to make it too much about a man reckoning the death of his wife via some very overwrought dream sequences.

| Oct 17, 2022

Even at just 93 minutes, “Beast” often feels padded and stretched. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur and journeyman screenwriter Ryan Engle paint themselves into a narrative corner with no chance of logical or believable escape.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 4, 2022