Should be required viewing for all of today's Hollywood franchise jockeys. It shows you how to make one of these things without sacrificing your characters' souls (or your own, for that matter).

| Dec 17, 2018

For the more open-minded, The Quake offers visceral thrills.

| Dec 15, 2018

Andersen shows he's assertively capable of staging scenes of mass-destruction on a relatively minimal budget... with thrilling aplomb.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2018

The Quake isn't your standard catastrophe drama, even if it does leave viewers shaking in their boots.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

There are fewer special effects shots than we'd see in a Hollywood version, but they are shrewdly deployed and suitably unsettling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

It's just intelligent and serious enough to give you your escapist cake - deluxe popcorn perils in all their big-screen glory - without making you eat the familiar guilt of empty-calorie overload.

| Dec 13, 2018

Joner is a capable actor, but he's required here to remain for such a long time in a one-note condition of mental fragility that our sympathy for the character starts to give way to exasperation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2018

The film's drawn-out boy-who-cried-wolf arc creates little opportunity for the main character to develop.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 10, 2018