Twisters is an engaging, amusing allegory for how we need to “tame” America’s storms. Its heroes are seeking ways to quell surges of “wrath,” and they are prioritizing care for those in danger’s path.

| Original Score: B | Jan 7, 2025

An adrenaline-pumping disaster film about storm chasers willing to take a lot of risks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2024

Twisters is a big, loud summer blockbuster, but it won’t blow you away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Twisters is watchable enough, and even broadly entertaining in its modest way. Sadly it will also remind the older viewer of a much better and much more enjoyable blockbuster.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 21, 2024

At just under two hours, “Twisters” is a thrill ride of a film with a country-heavy soundtrack that I, an avowed country music hater, didn’t hate.

| Nov 3, 2024

It's all fun and spectacularly executed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2024

Comparable to Twister in most ways.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2024

This cast is so good together, even the small pieces with other members of the Wranglers making an impression, that another adventure would be, by this reviewer, welcomed, should a story that makes sense get cracked.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2024

"Twisters” is a mildly entertaining diversion, nothing more. Every character but one is a cliche and every performance but one feeds into that cliche. The film never recovers from its lack of originality.

| Oct 10, 2024

I appreciate the standalone approach, which plays upon aspects of the original but modernizes it in clever, entertaining ways

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 8, 2024

Twisters stirs up a gust of nostalgia for 90s Americana. Despite being set in the present day, it bears all the hallmarks of what made 90s disaster movies so fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2024

This standalone sequel is an adrenalin-fuelled thrill ride with lots going for it including charismatic leads and wow-some spectacle

| Oct 4, 2024

Landing somewhere between a legacy sequel and soft reboot, with the feel of a blockbuster but also a subtle reflection on community and global warming, Twisters doesn’t quite make good use of the actors assembled.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2024

Powell as Hawksian man works fine, but Edgar-Jones, a Brit playing a New Yorkified Southerner who sounds like Anne Hathaway, never quite rises to the challenge of having a personality.

| Sep 16, 2024

Chung has crafted a mixed bag held aloft by old-fashioned star quality and a genuine interest in what makes those violent whirlwinds whirl.

| Sep 16, 2024

There’s a refreshing retro quality to “Twisters” that’s found in how the filmmakers value the cast and personalities and leverage them to bolster their spectacle.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 13, 2024

The rip-roaring kinda-sorta sequel to the 1996 cheeseball classic does exactly what it needs to do to keep you gripped to your seat all while keeping things fresh as possible to not make this feel overtly… cyclical.

| Sep 10, 2024

Will be hard for fans of the 1996 original to get sucked into. Newcomers to the dangerous swirling funnels will likely find this competently made film entertaining enough though it’s missing a spark to be truly memorable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 7, 2024

Director Lee Isaac Chung handles the character drama better than a conventional “action director” might have, but he also proves to have a vivid sense of space and motion that turns the scenes of destruction into more than just rote action.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2024

Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is a disaster movie with a genuine heart and cinematic swagger that cannot be easily replicated. It's way more than a cash grab or just any other legacy sequel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024