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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperUnlike the typical, effects-laden, comet-threatens-the-planet B-movie, Greenland is more in the vein of Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds,” with the scenes of chaos and destruction serving as the backdrop for the story of one family’s desperate quest for survival — even when circumstances have ripped them apart.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThings grow a bit squidgy whenever Waugh goes in for the money shots, but his eyes are seldom bigger than his wallet in a film that mines little suspense from the Garritys’ far-fetched race to safety, and a lot from their scramble to reunite whenever they get separated.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAnd yet, what makes Greenland stand out is how, at certain times, what we’re watching doesn’t seem so spectacular, but very much like the real thing — albeit with a fair amount of VFX and Butler’s own brand of sweaty, stress-bucket bravado.
- 63Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithThere are enough left turns here to allow us to shake the impression that we’ve been to this rodeo before.
- 63Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshIf we strip away the comets raining fire on the earth, this film is about how the ways in which how we treat each other can be a matter of life or death. Even in that darkness, it dares to have a little hope.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s an adequate, involving enough afternoon watch (faint praise: better than Geostorm) and for those with a certain destructive itch that still needs scratching, this should do the job.
- 60TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeFor most of its running time, it has a palpable B-movie energy that gives a little oomph to the umpteenth cinematic portrayal of humanity’s end.
- 58The PlaylistAndrew CrumpThe PlaylistAndrew CrumpGreenland isn’t some self-insistently timely movie and it probably isn’t the movie we “need” right now. But it’s the movie we have, and its honest to goodness but unintended genre resonance makes it easy to embrace.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIn its relatively small-scale, often rather plodding B-movie way, it wants to do for apocalypse thrillers what “Contagion” did for outbreak movies. And there are moments when it does.