Kate Bosworth’s performance is the only one that was above average but her character has issues I can’t go into without spoilers, making this film even more forgettable...

| Original Score: C- | Aug 20, 2024

A nice, taut thriller, full of tension and atmosphere. A well-paced survival tale, it mostly knows when to speed up and slow down.

| Original Score: B | Jul 8, 2020

Together with cinematographer Hillary Spera, [Katie Aselton] plays with the camera and visual angles, utilizing the often forgotten art of the dissolve to wonderful effect.

| Jan 7, 2020

One of the best American thrillers in recent memory and it's impossibly simple.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2019

The kind of endeavor that can run on spirit alone, if you let it, and although it won't ever become a staple of the genre, it does well by it, providing a far more enjoyable getaway than the ladies on the screen experience.

| Dec 4, 2018

Black Rock is much more complex than your average run-of-the-mill "run from danger, pretty lady" kind of movie.

| May 10, 2016

A tight-fisted little piece of gender-centric survival horror.

| Aug 24, 2015

Black Rock is a simplistic, predictable thriller that fails to become engaging thanks to idiotic characters and a by the numbers approach that has the audience two steps ahead of them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2013

This isn't quite the distaff Deliverance promised, but it's a credible indie thriller with characters worth caring about.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2013

We've seen Duplass write scripts that break cinema conventions like this, but who knew that his actress wife Aselton would turn out to be an equally innovative director?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2013

Aselton does demonstrate an assured touch in the early character-based scenes, but she lacks the same control when it comes to handling the action.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2013

[An] earthy, woodsy throwback thriller ...

| Jun 22, 2013

Katie Aselton's survival thriller sets its themes of time's passage, unresolved history and reluctant coming of age within a gripping island-set genre frame. It's like Lord Of The Flies for arrested adults.

| Jun 21, 2013

First-time filmmaker Aselton creates one of the most assured thrillers in recent memory, throwing finely developed characters into a very nasty situation that makes us squirm in our seats.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2013

Poorly acted and unintentionally funny this is definitely a bad day at black rock.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 21, 2013

Slender, but committed: even Kate Bosworth, as the girls' team leader, forswears her usual lipgloss.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2013

A formulaic dirge, further let down by a lack of the shocks, scares and interesting characterisations.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 20, 2013

It's Aselton and Bell who really impress, their characters providing the glue of credibility that prevents the increasingly overwrought situation from coming apart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2013

Engaging, gripping and tightly constructed thriller with a sharp script, effective action sequences and strong performances from all three leads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2013

'Black Rock' is never dull, but it's hardly the attention-grabbing calling card its creator presumably intended.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2013