...way overwritten in terms of character traits, and underwritten in terms of meaningful procedural changes; it’s the kind of film which requires warnings for the unwary; despite the sheen, it’s a time-waster where the end doesn’t justify the means...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2024

Benicio Del Toro’s solid lead performance can’t prevent Reptile from being a boring, forgettable procedural.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 12, 2024

Hat tip to Del Toro and company. I like scripts that present a familiar formula in a mystery, and then proceed to have fun with the whodunit.

| Dec 3, 2023

The script suffers from having an excess of twists executed at a slow pace... [but] the cast never makes it boring. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 1, 2023

Reptile lets all the drama happen off screen with a third act deus ex machina. What could have been a knotty, suburban, coastal noir boils down to a detective story we’ve all seen before.

| Nov 13, 2023

This is a dreary and somewhat tense crime drama that features a fascinating and compelling lead performance. Del Toro crushes it, but the mystery surrounding his character doesn’t quite come together as intended

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 10, 2023

Excellent performances aren’t enough to salvage this labyrinthine slog saturated with equal parts premeditated diversion and gloomy atmosphere. Not even del Toro can make this work.

| Oct 26, 2023

Though the film’s plot, including its resolution, is routine, Del Toro and Silverstone keep things interesting. I’d love to see them return as these characters in a more compelling story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2023

A pretty effective murder mystery... [Benicio Del Toro] has aged very nicely into this sort of role.

| Oct 21, 2023

Eventually, Reptile becomes tangled and leaves some of its subplots as loose ends, but Singer’s film is an impressively solid and slimy procedural.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2023

What begins as a taut crime story ends as anything but. In fact, the finale leaves a couple of questions unanswered.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 13, 2023

Grant Singer puts in plenty of nice touches to stress a seedy environment, and del Toro gets a lot of lived-in aspects to his role to play with, but the film still can’t entirely shed the feel of being a “lesser than” attempt at a strong cinematic effort.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 11, 2023

Reptile, whose name is never fully explained, packs quite a lot into the fast-moving story, though at over two hours, it could have been condensed more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2023

It's too convoluted and it feels like a low-rent "True Detective". At the heart of it, it could have been fantastic, but the execution of this film was poorly done.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 6, 2023

Reptile shines in various aspects, and its flaws can easily be overlooked. Watch it for Del Toro's compelling performance and Fincher's influence (particularly in the first half).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2023

Sadly, you still need to stick the landing, and Reptile does a good job of drawing us into the mystery, it just rushes the ending and that feels like a crime.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2023

Gets points for holding your interest, but loses them for botching the close...it twists itself into such pretzel formations in an attempt to surprise that by the end the ludicrousness has overwhelmed the mood it worked so hard to establish.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 5, 2023

Benicio Del Toro makes this whole thing work. If it were an hour and a half, it'd be a 4-star. At it's current unwieldy length, it's a 3-star. Still a good watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2023

"Reptile" isn't a terrible film. There will be a specific crowd that enjoys it. There are just better offerings out there.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 4, 2023

A very absorbing whodunnit procedural assembled with cooly unnerving aplomb, like a David Fincher thriller.

| Oct 3, 2023