The plot itself is a cool idea but the execution was an exhaustive experience. It could be horrifying, but with some mediocre performances, that tension is completely diluted.

| Feb 22, 2023

An insubstantial, obvious, repetitive and somewhat thin psychological horror film, but the committed performances do give it some juice.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2022

While keeping the scope contained makes the central conflicts more heightened for these characters, it does make one yearn for exposing a more extensive narrative around them.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 8, 2022

"Theres enough gusto in the films final third that its parallel dramatic and horrific lines finally intersect at an appropriately blunt, bleak point."

| Feb 22, 2022

Why You Should Watch We Need to Do Something: You want a reminder that the pandemic could be worse.

| Dec 21, 2021

It's wicked, it's incredibly engaging and it feels quite dizzying, despite taking place more or less in one room.

| Original Score: A | Oct 31, 2021

Although it will be too small and oblique a film for many, what really undermines the impact that We Need to do Something could have is that its plot ultimately makes no sense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2021

An intense watch that will have you on the edge of your seat, We Need to Do Something is a well-made, though not fully rounded, addition to the ever-present single situational horror sub-genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2021

It's moderately diverting Halloween filler - earning points for reviving Taco's electropop cover of Puttin' on the Ritz - but still way too static to become actually entertaining.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2021

There's definitely an audience for films like these, but if you're looking for anything more than some cool visuals and absurd terror, this one may not be for you.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 21, 2021

Festooned with dreadful ludicrises, artless production, and hampered by a truly dreadful screenplay from Max Booth III, one begins to feel as unhappily imprisoned as the family themselves in being forced to screen it.

| Original Score: 76/100 | Sep 14, 2021

O'Grady does manage to convey that feeling of endless dread and foreboding that we've all felt in the past year at some time or another.

| Sep 13, 2021

No Exit this ain't, making the lack of explication irritating-though not as irritating as the characters we're stuck with for 97 minutes.

| Sep 13, 2021

The title of this movie should be We Need to Do Something About Warning People to Avoid This Toxic Trash Posing as a Horror Film.

| Sep 12, 2021

... the family dynamic exaggerates (slightly) the feeling of being trapped inside with those you are supposed to be closest to.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2021

Despite one supremely frightening moment, this movie is not scary. It just stinks.

| Sep 10, 2021

A claustrophobic little thriller...that aims for shivers and shocks but is more likely to elicit nervous giggles and inadvertent yawns.

| Original Score: C | Sep 8, 2021

The cast of We Need to Do Something really worked with the small space and fed off of each other like a true family on the brink, but I was left wanting more despite the great tension of the film

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 7, 2021

Two and Two and Two start to come together, and the tornado becomes an allegory for something more evil. Very disturbing, mostly on the back of the high emotions . Angry Dad!

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2021

I wonder how the novella handles elevating tension with isolation and claustrophobia in its writing because when it's depicted on screen, the results are middling.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 4, 2021