Despite some dodgy CGI, this Dan Trachtenberg-directed thriller never stops being what you need it to be: totally entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

For my money it’s the best since the original.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2022

The rare franchise installment that finds a fresh, compelling spin on the material while also effectively drawing inspiration from the original without being suffocated by it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Hulu’s clever prequel to Predator is so much more than IP exploitation—it’s bloodthirsty, self-assured, and crowd-pleasing

| Aug 10, 2022

Trachtenberg took an unprecedented risk and succeeded

| Aug 9, 2022

The result is pretty fun, if also a tonal mishmash of goofiness and gorgeous landscapes.

| Aug 9, 2022

A “Predator” story should have well-crafted and excitingly staged scenes of humans fighting an alien. This picture has plenty.

| Aug 8, 2022

A prequel to the Predator series that stays true to the essence of the original – stylishly violent, stickily graphic, impossibly tense – while also working satisfyingly as a self-contained entity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2022

How can one teenage girl hope to take down this enormous, often invisible, ferocious, emotionally intelligent, extraterrestrial being with a wide array of weapons at its disposal? Let's just say Prey comes up with ingenious ways to even the odds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2022

You may think you don't need another Predator movie in your life, but you need this one -- it is awesome.

| Aug 5, 2022

The action is propulsive, blood-soaked but inventive.

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

Midthunder giving a muscular performance but can’t wrestle Prey away from the franchise, which makes the Comanche people feel like ornamental props in a better-than-average Predator movie rather than fully formed characters who own their narrative.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2022

Director Dan Trachtenberg ... delivers the year’s best action film. Midthunder’s compelling main character slogs and slings through her character arc, instead of parachuting in, already fashionably armed with a complete complement of kick-ass skills.

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

Prey is going to go down as one of 2022’s most entertaining motion pictures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Prey represents an odd if refreshingly spare addition to the franchise, giving a coming-of-age spin to a faceoff that can't help but feel like a serious mismatch.

| Aug 4, 2022

This prequel manages to capture the spirit of that Schwarzenegger original while completely rejiggering and deepening the Most Dangerous Game notion at the center of it all. It instantly establishes itself as a series highlight.

| Aug 4, 2022

Its thrills aren’t solely reliant on what’s already familiar to audiences. It isn’t powered by nostalgia -- an exceedingly rare thing to see in mainstream cinema these days.

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

The franchise’s latest stab at resuscitation... absolutely kills.

| Aug 4, 2022

The real meat on “Prey’s” bones concerns who is the more fearsome predator: The alien beast or the French colonizers? That question gives this gory R-rated Western/horror mashup its brain, attitude, even its punch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2022

A scary and fun amusement park ride that also elicits a surprisingly tender emotional response.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2022