Everest's uncanny realism is a big part of what keeps you in its icy thrall.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2016

For all the natural spectacle, the characters are what hold one's attention.

| Sep 24, 2015

It's unlikely to have the massive success of Gravity, as it doesn't have quite the uplifting ending of that film (though God knows it tries), but it's worth watching just to see the places human beings should probably never tread.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2015

"Everest," in short, suffers from the same problem as Everest: overcrowding.

| Sep 21, 2015

Unlike many mountain-disaster stories, this is the kind that makes you never want to look at a mountain again.

| Sep 20, 2015

Powerful sound design effectively accentuates the sense of stormy isolation, giving the mountain the last word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2015

Director Baltasar Kormákur knows his way around the digitally fabricated high-altitude terrain, swooping in on cliffhanger scenarios and bringing us dizzyingly close to the edge, to vertigo, to something worthwhile.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2015

Ultimately, "Everest" is an achievement of production, capturing the landscape in striking IMAX cinematography. It's also the compelling tale of mountains and the people who feel the need to conquer them, or be conquered in the process.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2015

This is one of those movies that should have been just a little dumber (more like The Towering Inferno) or a little smarter (more like 127 Hours).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2015

A white-knuckle survival film with an outstanding cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2015

Its narrative missteps notwithstanding, this is a movie on the grandest scale, one that really does induce a sense of awe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2015

Everest is a somewhat histrionic spin on a real-life tragedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2015

Everest, for all the excitement it manages to generate, is a missed opportunity: mountain high, puddle deep.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2015

In spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, "Everest" did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 18, 2015

The toggling between the base and various points along the way to the summit becomes stressful, then heartbreaking.

| Sep 18, 2015

There is no tragic hero here; there is no overarching explanation, but a movie that offered either of those would seem pretty pat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2015

The best argument in favor of what otherwise would be a pointlessly cruel loss of human life are the sweeping, heart-stoppingly beautiful mountain vistas. (See this one in IMAX if you can.)

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2015

"Everest" is a truly spectacular experience that deserves to be seen on the grandest scale possible.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 18, 2015

Arrogant, unqualified, near indistinguishable people in parkas blocking spectacular scenery.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 17, 2015

As it turns out, Imax 3-D works better for yaks than it does for people.

| Sep 17, 2015