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

| Oct 21, 2023

Del Toro’s solid screen charisma can’t rescue Reptile, a derivative and lethargic thriller that rarely thrills as it tries and fails to build a case for itself as a meaningful iteration on the detective thrillers that it admires.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2023

The fallout from all this purposeful gloom isn't merely that nothing surprises us; even Del Toro's committed portrayal of a careful man's gathering disillusionment gets jammed up.

| Oct 2, 2023

Del Toro carries this sometimes convoluted and derivative thriller into three-star territory with an absolutely mesmerizing and authentic performance that conjures up memories of past anti-hero greats such as Bogart and Mitchum, Ryan and Hayden.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2023

Benicio del Toro's understated performance as a soft-spoken detective is about the only interesting thing about this new Netflix thriller, which drowns a thin murder mystery in lots of ominous atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 29, 2023

Del Toro and Silverstone make a meal out of what tends to be a pro forma side to these kinds of thrillers

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2023

A good-looking, engaging B-movie made with uncommon intelligence. Music video director Grant Singer’s feature debut is no perfect object, but it is decidedly, and often successfully, aspiring to be something more than just toss-off streaming content.

| Sep 28, 2023

Less "whodunit", more "who cares?"

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2023

Once the film gets around to revealing the culprit, we have already lost interest, enervated in the face of a movie that, like an overeager snake, bites off far more than it can swallow.

| Sep 28, 2023

Del Toro doesn’t disappoint. Humorous, serious, determined.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2023

The bulky physical presence of Del Toro himself gives the film its momentum and force.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2023

“Reptile” tugs you along with a competent and accessible intrigue.

| Sep 27, 2023

Such tension ultimately unravels during a latter half that rushes through too many underwhelming revelations, but that’s not enough to completely offset the film’s beguiling air of despondency.

| Sep 26, 2023

Reptile just feels wayward and listless.

| Sep 26, 2023

Every other actor in the movie — from Timberlake, to Eric Bogosian as Nichols’ boss, to Domenick Lombardozzi as his colleague — seems to have been cast as an irresistible force to be thrown against Del Toro’s immovable object.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2023

In “Reptile” the density is less satisfying than it is irritating. A good thriller can go in lots of different directions, but it should never be this tiresome.

| Sep 10, 2023

Grant Singer’s feature directorial debut suffers from an overinflated sense of grandeur and a frustratingly convoluted story, reaching for dramatic heights that it hasn’t earned.

| Sep 9, 2023

In an effort to prove its cleverness, Reptile clanks, rattles and stumbles in its second half. The tricks that initially impressed eventually become hard to endure.

| Sep 9, 2023

Wants to be a David Fincher procedural with Steven Soderbergh’s paranoia, but it is a merely fangless homage without suspense, logic, or shame.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 9, 2023