The special effects are quite good, but “The Gorge” doesn’t scale the goofy heights in a rollercoaster ride way that it thinks it does, stalling out with a hackneyed ending that makes you shrug your shoulders and want to move on to something better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2025

The romance, as saccharine as it may be, is an endearing throughline, anchoring the film as it oscillates between its genres.

| Feb 20, 2025

Despite looking like it was based on a video game that your younger brother obsessively plays, The Gorge is in fact an original, or whatever that word means when the plot and aesthetic feel like they’ve been stitched together from so many other films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2025

This is a great-looking movie with star-power leads, and not for a second is any of it even close to being plausible, and we’re just fine with that.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2025

A Whitman’s Sampler of film genres with a delightfully sweet center that belies its freaky packaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2025

Despite a clunky set-up, “The Gorge” delivers on its potential.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2025

There is good preposterous and bad preposterous. “The Gorge” may find some believers on both sides of that gulf.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 13, 2025

Ultimately The Gorge is a date-movie that rudely insists on going Dutch. Best to just ghost this would-be suitor and keep swiping right through the Apple 온라인카지노추천+ queue.

| Feb 13, 2025

For a solid hour or so, the film is patient and tense, with just the right touches of levity and romance. Until, suddenly, it isn’t.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 13, 2025

When The Gorge keeps its focus on charismatic star-crossed lovers falling in love as they fight off a dreadful threat, which is most of the time, it's every bit the diversion anyone intrigued by that description would want it to be.

| Original Score: 7.1/10 | Feb 13, 2025

An unexpectedly romantic movie coming from the 'Sinister' and 'The Black Phone' director, but it’s also a gnarly monster flick with memorable beasties galore.

| Feb 13, 2025

The Gorge is drab stuff, with a mechanical video-game feel, devolving into an unwieldy mess of effects that suggests a cut-price hybrid of Lovecraft-style crawling chaos and B-movie “science gone too far”.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2025

What The Gorge does supply is a novel science-fiction premise and some captivating bursts of suspense. There was potential for this mysterious action romp to be something more special -- a keeper, even. But we’ll take what we can get.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2025

It’s a meet-cute romantic comedy trying to hold hands with a sci-fi action thriller, and its reach exceeds its grasp.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 13, 2025

Many of the ideas in The Gorge -- about soldiers as pawns and the wide reach of the military -- would have been good fodder for a nervy sci-fi. But when the film finally gets around to those ideas, our heroes have about as much time as we do patience.

| Feb 13, 2025

Once you find out what’s really happening, and why this area has been such a well-kept secret, you can feel the oxygen get sucked out of the proceedings with alarming speed.

| Feb 13, 2025

You just have to hope for some fun along the way. The movie delivers that every now and then, but not nearly enough. Bigger! Dumber! Something! I’d settle for just better.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 13, 2025

Handled with this journeyman approach, without any original spark, The Gorge stands as a collage of familiarity that breeds not contempt but resignation.

| Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2025

For all the elaborate weaponry, production design and frantic action offered here, this movie crackles most as a lively pas de deux between Taylor-Joy and Teller, who commendably take their material seriously no matter how seriously ridiculous it gets.

| Feb 13, 2025

The spirit of the drive-in is strong in this trashy mash-up, though it’s best appreciated as an unlikely romance, where love and poetry somehow blossom amid heavy gunfire and monster rampages.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2025