The cast projects a generic, 50s B-movie vibe, but in a good way; no one character is especially likable or unlikable, and this keeps you guessing as to whom the filmmakers will kill off.

| Feb 19, 2020

The production design on this film is fantastic... I was dazzled from scene to scene.

| Sep 13, 2019

Escape Room is not anything to get terribly excited about. But where suspense is concerned, the premise works: even when the trajectory of the story is easy to predict, there's no knowing what may be hidden behind any specific locked door.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

Escape Room is too contrived to convince us of genuine peril.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2019

Total nonsense. It makes no sense.

| Feb 2, 2019

There is some enthusiasm on display at the outset...but the film, possibly prefiguring the response of any rational audience, is soon enervated by its own tiresome premise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 1, 2019

The film is a knock-off construction with a bit of an identity crisis, marketed as horror but lacking either the Rube Goldberg ingenuity or sick verve of its genre bedfellows.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2019

Nifty, nasty high-concept horror, with dabs of Saw and Final Destination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2019

Escape Room is like The Crystal Maze with more death. It's fun at the start then loses its way, but it'll do until 'Flossing: The Movie' comes along.

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

A welcome addition to the small subgenre of horror films where people don't act stupidly under extreme duress.

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

A cutthroat little thriller that's surely more fun than most of the riddle-solving lock-ins currently springing up around the country.

| Jan 6, 2019

Definitely a talented filmmaker, but this feels like a studio-botched job...the movie took such a drastic nosedive into corporate sequel territory.

| Original Score: D | Jan 4, 2019

It's like the filmmakers themselves were locked in an escape room with no way out. At least, in the end, it's true to the film's premise. "Escape Room" is trapped.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 4, 2019

Robitel sets up a number of winning set pieces for his characters to attempt to get themselves out of.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

It was inevitable that "Escape Room" would be a bad movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2019

A sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 4, 2019

It's not asking much that a thriller be scary or shocking. This one waffles between being predictable and absurd.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Clumsily scripted and extremely predictable, Escape Room absolutely deserves to be unloaded into the cinematic landfill that is early January.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 4, 2019

Escape Room is a throwback without the bite, a bloodless PG-13 thriller that recalls the mechanized horror trend while sanding off its serrated edges.

| Jan 3, 2019

The amped-up psychological thriller "Escape Room" pretty much accomplishes what it sets out to do and does it fairly well.

| Jan 3, 2019