This is an excellent, nuanced film about brotherhood, but the sisterhood takes a back seat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

If you’re looking for an uncomfortably revealing film about the layered dangers of being a person of color in America, this film is for you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2024

This would've worked better as a short film.

| Jan 11, 2024

Emergency intelligently blends impactful social commentary with an occasionally unbalanced dark humor, but it's the extremely tense, captivating, frighteningly realistic story that ultimately grabs the audience's undivided attention.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 25, 2023

The tones of Emergency have been at odds with one another up until now, but writer KD Davila eventually favors one side. This is for the best seeing as the film operates much better as an endearing drama than a basic college comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Emergency attempts to prepare the audience for class and cultural differences, and the constant prosecution of Black people in America.

| Jul 21, 2023

My synopsis doesn’t do justice to the often funny banter that takes place during this potentially deadly misadventure, or the way the humor and the danger reinforce each other.

| Mar 13, 2023

The story, while encompassing the basic elements of a stoner comedy, also has real dramatic power.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 28, 2023

A lot of [its success] comes from visual gags that Williams sprinkles throughout, but most of the success lies in just how deftly the filmmakers handle the inevitable shift towards real life and death stakes.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 6, 2023

Director Carey Williams and writer K.D. Dávila ably balance the film’s gross-out humor with its commentary on racial double standards...and lead actor RJ Cyler steals the show with movie star charisma.

| Dec 14, 2022

Emergency that from the society. Director Carey Williams, with the script of K.D. Dávila, show it to us in a way as raw as cutting, and at the same time horrifying and fun. [Full review in Spanish.]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2022

An ultimately wearisome comedy of errors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2022

The central conceit – which I won’t spoil here – is treated matter-of-factly, which is itself the shocking thing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2022

Erratically structured as both thriller and comedy, Carey Williams’ Emergency has all the earmarks of being both a Jordan Peele wannabe and a calling-card project for Hollywood, and pulls off neither.

| Aug 1, 2022

Isn't fun and isn't supposed to be.

| Original Score: B | Jul 19, 2022

Comedy/Drama/Thriller that subverts the debauched college campus comedy by looking at it through a racially conscious lens.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2022

Williams and Dávila cook up engaging chemistry between colorful characters, zigzagging between plot threads efficiently; every character matters, every twist makes pretty good sense. ... There’s a current of truth and sincerity running through it.

| Original Score: B | Jun 28, 2022

The fears and truths depicted – race, police interactions, and what could happen to young women at parties – allow for necessary conversations to take place.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2022

Excellently weaved together in a gripping story in which action leads devastatingly into consequence, this is far above what you’d expect from filmmakers this early into their careers, and it deserves as many eyes on it as it can get.

| Jun 24, 2022

Director Carey Williams is a gifted multitasker. Emergency never loses the flavour of comedy; it can also be deeply astringent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2022