…hard-boiled and deliberately alienating, Mojave is also as tough and uncompromising as the desert from which it takes its name…

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2022

Monahan's basic setup has possibility, but his film falls short by failing to generate any empathy whatsoever in his potentially stirring cat-and-mouse thriller.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

[The acting is] not enough to redeem this story that crawls off without much impact, making it completely unthrilling and basically forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2021

Things are as arid as the desert emotionally.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 18, 2021

Every line of dialogue here seems painfully forced.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 10, 2021

Not nearly as profound as it thinks it is despite some good actors trying their best to bring real meaning to the script.

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

The first act hints at a psychologically sophisticated reflection on the duality of man but backslides into a second rate Hollywood-noir at best.

| Jan 7, 2021

An unwitting cautionary tale about toxic masculinity... featuring exchanges of faux-deep philosophies about life, fame, sociopathy, and death...

| Nov 30, 2020

Without an effective conclusion, Mojave remains a pathetically pretentious mess that limps to the finish line on the backs of its stars' considerable chemistry.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2019

An awful lot of very big ideas, elaborate rhetoric and name-dropping of cultural luminaries attempt to elevate an old-fashioned game of cat and mouse to a higher plain but are lost in the mire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 9, 2019

The devil in the details is sadly missing from Mojave.

| Original Score: C | Sep 16, 2017

As failures go, Mojave is a pretty interesting one. But it's a failure nonetheless.

| Jun 14, 2017

Trailing a whiff of sulphur every time he appears, Isaac injects real menace into his role, while Hedlund oozes entitlement and angst.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2017

Monahan adeptly captures an air of faded, stinking decadence -- but after an unforeseen murder, the third act never really materialises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Mojave is a wandering oddity that doesn't really go anywhere.

| Apr 22, 2016

Monahan won an Oscar for writing The Departed - what he is trying to achieve here remains a mystery.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 27, 2016

Isaac's efforts can't help Mojave from becoming a bit of a mess and, ultimately, a little dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2016

Isaac is charming and bonhomous as ever, Hedlund is suitably brooding yet dim looking, and Mark Wahlberg is a hoot as a chippy producer perpetually playing host to bored prostitutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Mojave is deeply annoying.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 24, 2016

A compelling picture that blurs the line between good and evil.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2016