It's really fun, exciting, and does exactly what it needs to do.

| Oct 2, 2019

Crawl could really do with some sense and structure to go along with all these earnest emotions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Perfectly good, if disposable, popcorn entertainment...

| Aug 30, 2019

Aja gleefully embraces the imperative of every horror film - that the dispensable characters have to die horribly so that we understand completely the consequences for the protagonists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2019

Crawl benefits from its economical 87-minute runtime, but as a genre piece it's perhaps more skin than muscle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2019

Note perfect, impeccably timed, thrillingly stressful, brilliantly cinematic, inventively gory, and under 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2019

Crawl isn't Jaws, any day of the week, but it's crunchy Friday-night nonsense that knows what it's doing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2019

Outside: that is the weather. Inside: it is the swishy, corrugated, murder-eyed mega-lizards, CGI'd so skilfully they look more real than the real.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2019

if you don't want to gasp and groan and wince and jump your way through all the pain and terror, and to feel the frustration of rising waters, circling reptiles and snapping teeth - then caveat emptor. The rest of us will be just fine with it.

| Aug 21, 2019

There hasn't been a decent croc movie since 1999's Lake Placid and this is just the latest to lack, ahem, bite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2019

As a mindless summer horror diversion, Crawl is watchable if rarely all that thrilling. The movie's far from toothless, yet often substitutes easy scares for any real substance, and suffers for that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2019

For viewers seeking summertime relief from the intellectual burden of superhero movies, there's this accidentally funny and numbingly literal action thriller.

| Jul 22, 2019

Though not a patch on Lewis Teague's charming Alligator, a steady dose of more action-thrillers like this may help send comic-book carcinoma into remission.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2019

Crawl is lean, mean fun, and in a summer of overwrought art-horror and mean-spirited studio remakes of indie faves, this classic, old-school creature feature is the cleansing bloodbath we need.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2019

What's likable about Aja's new thriller, Crawl, is how the director pares down his indulgences into a fine, sharp point.

| Jul 16, 2019

Crawl is not exactly an inventive film. But it doesn't have to be. It delivers on what it promises, and not many big-studio movies this year can claim the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2019

It's toothless despite its alligator antagonists, not least because it never bothers linking its premise - a category 5 hurricane in Florida that causes a flood - to the existential threat hastening such extreme weather events in the first place.

| Jul 13, 2019

Crawl would look pretty good in just about any season. In this one it positively glows.

| Jul 13, 2019

Like the apex predators slithering at the center of it all, it gets the job done once it lets is more brutal, primal instincts take over.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 13, 2019

Crawl is dumb genre fun, but it's not too dumb... If any one thing holds back this modest, skillfully made potboiler from true B-movie glory, it's the human drama.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 13, 2019