It is an exciting...action film based on an interesting script with good performances (especially from Pitt and Lewis).

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Sena has a nifty knack for playing out major twists in a minor key.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 24, 2020

Pitt and Lewis have made an unfortunate choice for their first big-screen collaboration. In fact, the flashes of acting brilliance that they show in this messy, often-pretentious production are its only real points of interest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2019

It is pulpy trash masquerading as an art film, ultimately failing to be either.

| Apr 18, 2019

An uneven mess of a vehicle for its stars, one that did no favors for anyone starring, including Pitt.

| Mar 22, 2019

What makes Kalifornia intriguing is the manner in which these characters all relate to one another. Where the film suffers is in its obliviousness toward its own obviousness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2019

Parts of it seem intent on being a thriller, while others are played as though the story is a dark comedy. Consequently, you aren't always sure whether to laugh or tense up.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 6, 2019

If you hop aboard this sick, unjoyful ride, you'd better bail out early. Unsafe at any speed, this dramatic vehicle goes up in flames.

| Mar 4, 2019

The movie is a road trip that takes a bad turn to hell. Check it out.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Brad Pitt's performance is crucial, and he rips into the character with a frightening sense of unhinged egomania, violently subverting the Redford-lite pretty-boy image with which so many wanted to associate him

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2010

It's good-looking but unsubstantial.

| Original Score: C | Jul 14, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2007

The movie begins extremely well before escalating into the inevitable Straw Dogs confrontation, when the sensitive-intellectual man discovers, just like Dustin Hoffman, that when push comes to shove, we're all brutes and animals.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 18, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2005

An Absolutely riveting movie...Pitt is outstanding

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2005

A gritty, haunting voyeur's peek into the human condition.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2004

Visually stylish, thematically creepy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2004