It's another disappointing action movie from Netflix, which has a very spotty record in this space.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2024

It's a bore.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Jan 19, 2024

Any film that begins with an elaborate, broad daylight heist deserves viewers' attention. It's what comes between that intro and the film's adrenalin-pumping final hour that may give Netflix audiences reasons to take a refrigerator break.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2024

Fine for what it is, featuring a heist designed for light escapism. Yet it’s also a prime example of the Netflix algorithm at work: using data to determine what subscribers like, then feeding that demand.

| Jan 16, 2024

Perhaps aware of the limitations of the screenplay, director F Gary Gray deploys an irritating arsenal of flashy camera moves and sleight-of-hand edits, but these only serve to emphasise the emptiness of the spectacle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2024

The one saving grace of the many shenanigans in Lift is that everything is so confusing that we don’t get the chance to realize how punishingly implausible it all is.

| Jan 13, 2024

Kevin Hart’s heist crew steals ideas from better movies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2024

You can’t ask for more from a winter diversion—even if you wouldn’t wish for less.

| Jan 13, 2024

Competently made and star-studded, with a couple of intriguing ideas, but hollow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2024

By stifling Hart’s seasoned comedy-fuelled charisma, this overly stylised crime caper is a turbulent ride. Stay for Mbatha-Raw’s righteous action skills, which should propel her to bigger and bolder things.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 12, 2024

Start the new year off wrong with another Kevin Hart misfire that doesn’t even try to be funny, preferring to slide by as a humdrum heist movie that steals time you'll never get back.

| Jan 12, 2024

While the actors themselves are game, their parts are too thinly written for any of them to come across as more than cogs in a not-so-well-oiled machine.

| Jan 12, 2024

It’s too insecure, too eager, too anxious to be mysterious. Its tricks are not so much revealed as word-vomited through clunky exposition.

| Jan 12, 2024

Who cares about the gold being lifted? It’s our time that’s really being stolen here.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 12, 2024

This Ocean’s Eleven knock-off has zero charm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 12, 2024

There’s plenty to keep many viewers watching for its 1 hour, 44-minute runtime. But... not enough to elevate Lift above its many forgotten peers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2024

Hart is stuck in neutral.

| Jan 12, 2024