This disaster film is contrived and nonsensical with very few redeeming features.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Greenland may not add anything fresh or new to the very over-done genre of disaster movies, yet it provides two hours of fun and entertaining escapism. Gerard Butler is better than he's been in a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2023

In the end, Greenland is predictably underwhelming, packing only a couple of genuinely exciting sequences, and a decent cast.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 24, 2023

Butler’s most affecting performance in years... Greenland presents the end of the world as we know it in a mighty fine and entertaining way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022

A surprisingly grounded disaster movie featuring Gerard Butler’s best performance in years. The thought-provoking premise and emotional focus elevate this above other movies in this popular subgenre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2022

A remarkable combination of downright dullness and eye-rolling coincidences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2022

It’s one of Butler’s best films in years; one that takes the familiar end-of-the-world idea and uses it to explore human nature in a surprisingly thoughtful way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

For most of its runtime, "Greenland" surprises at just about every opportunity. It continually takes every decision that a mindless disaster movie might make and does the complete opposite.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 7, 2022

It does a good job of masquerading as something deeper than your average disaster fare.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Believable characters keep the story grounded (this is head-and-shoulders above Gerard Butler's ordinary, two-dimensional fare).

| Sep 17, 2021

If this isn't exactly how the end of the world will happen, the way [Greenland's] characters learn about the film's cataclysm at least feels eerily believable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2021

The movie wants to be on the same scale as War of the Worlds, World War Z or Roland Emmerich's movies, but at a fraction of the budget.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2021

By focusing on the stories and lives of people on the ground in favour of a more crash, bang, wallop approach, Greenland offers genuine thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2021

But with a seemingly never-ending pandemic making a non-bunkered lifestyle difficult, if not impossible, until sometime next year, a pre- and post-apocalyptic thriller feels reassuring.

| Jun 8, 2021

Greenland [is] no under-the-radar masterpiece waiting to be discovered. Still, there's plenty of space to appreciate a low-budget B movie exceeding expectations.

| Jun 5, 2021

There are enough quietly compelling moments and plenty of fine performances to justify Greenland as passable entertainment.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 25, 2021

Waugh's film feels like too much, especially in the final act, when the personal is replaced by the plodding.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 17, 2021

At first, I thought someone had played a practical joke on me.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2021

The scenes of rioting resemble the news footage that accompanied the reign of President Trump. It was probably unintentional, but the similarities are startling, with the film evoking Americans at war with each other, a theme that is uncomfortably timely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2021

Sure, there are plenty of explosions and breathtakingly horrifying sequences involving cities being annihilated by fragments of the comet, but the panic-fueled tension at the center of Greenland comes from the real human stakes driving its narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2021