The result is a first-rate B-picture, and a timely reminder of the delights of well-crafted popcorn thrills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2021

The new movie Greenland will make you sick. And I cannot recommend it highly enough.

| Feb 6, 2021

Butler's best star vehicle in years, what could have been a bombastic bunch of boulders is, instead, a refreshingly clear-eyed and compelling affair. One of the best disaster movies in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2021

It's as if the film knows what we know, or what we've learnt in lockdown. That even in the face of chaos and disaster on a worldwide scale, it's the personal stuff that counts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2021

If you love disaster movies because they're a guilty pleasure, this one might offer some challenges. Greenland is actually unsettling, if you care to read its darker meanings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 5, 2021

While [director Ric Roman] Waugh couldn't quite rescue Butler's last film, Angel Has Fallen, from the violent ugliness of its franchise, he at least injected it with a little self-awareness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2021

Gerard Butler finally faces an adversary he can't punch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2021

Far bleaker and more downbeat than you would expect. The film manages something truly unique by showing that you don't need astronomical budgets to make a decent disaster movie.

| Feb 4, 2021

I'm shocked at how good this movie is, because on paper it looked totally stupid... Surprisingly gripping and well-done.

| Dec 22, 2020

But no matter how silly it all gets the reality of the situation for the family is rarely inauthentic, making the ridiculous stupidity even easier to digest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2020

Delivering the apocalypse on a budget, the disaster film Greenland dramatises the end of the world with no-nonsense efficiency.

| Dec 19, 2020

Is it great? No. It's got a lot of structural issues in the last half... But I liked that the movie did not rely on CGI and actually focuses on the family for the most part, which heightened the tension for me.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 18, 2020

That "Greenland" is able to keep things on a human level for almost the entire duration of its runtime is also made possible by the film's quiet insistence on the kindness of strangers and the insidiousness that's made possible by our own self-interest.

| Original Score: B | Dec 18, 2020

It's just escapist enough to fill our disaster-flick needs, but don't be surprised if Ric Roman Waugh's film sometimes feels like too much, especially in the middle of an ongoing real-life calamity.

| Dec 18, 2020

Greenland might be a B-movie at heart, but in keeping at least one toe on the ground at all times, the filmmakers craft something that punches well above its weight class.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2020

Greenland never comes together into a truly satisfying package, but it deserves a little credit for trying to do something unique within such a familiar framework.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2020

Not just plausible but recognizable. There's very little otherworldly about this cinematic apocalypse. These are the people, places and, yes, behaviors we know all too well.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2020

It is uncomfortably reminiscent of current affairs.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 18, 2020

Instead, we endure what feels like the extended cut of one of six concurrent plots in a Roland Emmerich movie, just to be treated to the big finale of fiery digital gum drops and cheap, cheesy effects.

| Original Score: C | Dec 18, 2020

With just a few editing nips and tucks, this could have been so much better. But it's still a decent bit of mindless escapism that invites you to laugh at it while enjoying a roller coaster ride.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 17, 2020