Regardless, and despite its obvious budget constraints, “Cleaner” is a certainly entertaining, action-packed romp that’s also well-shot. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 11, 2025

Ridley might not bring much dimensionality to Joey as a character, but she does bring a ton of physicality: She looks like she’s having the time of her life getting down and dirty for the film’s myriad beatdowns.

| Feb 24, 2025

You might say it’s like seeing “Die Hard” through a smudged window. Someone fetch the Windex.

| Feb 22, 2025

I’ve spent over two paragraphs now talking about the various movie trivia 'Cleaner' reminded me of, since 'Cleaner' doesn’t provide much other food for thought.

| Feb 22, 2025

“Cleaner” is a concept action movie with a bit of heart and of course, plenty of high-flying antics from an impossible situation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2025

Cleaner understands the retro action-thriller assignment, and that’s what ultimately matters the most.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2025

Outside of a few late-inning fight scenes, Ridley earns her action-movie spurs without a lot of actual action, but she’s resolute of spirit and firm of jaw, and it’s easy to cheer Joey on as she jumps the preprogrammed hurdles of this subgenre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2025

“Cleaner” is “Die Hard,” just with different people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2025

“Cleaner” is a good-not-great thriller in the “Die Hard” mold that gets an extra lift from Campbell’s skillful direction and from Ridley, who is slowly but surely showing herself to be a performer of wide range and appeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2025

Campbell clearly knows his way around this sort of material, resulting in some tense, well-staged action sequences that make Cleaner reasonably diverting for its concise running time. But the film never achieves the heights of the classic actioners.

| Feb 19, 2025

Continuing his late-career journeyman run of proficient, unremarkable action vehicles, director Martin Campbell offers some reliably, well, clean hand-to-hand combat without showing us anything we haven’t seen before.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 19, 2025

Campbell’s timid direction of a tired script can’t rise to the occasion.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 18, 2025

For all the ways in which the film recalls Die Hard, Cleaner lacks two of that action classic’s most important elements: a sense of fun and legitimate stakes.

| Feb 18, 2025

Ridley is a talented actress who's proven her skill with action in three 'Star Wars' movies. But she's wasted in this muddled thriller.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 18, 2025