Metacritic Movie Ratings
Reservation Road Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  There's a kind of tough beauty to this deft, satisfying thriller.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Tries rather feebly to examine complex questions of morality. It does a better job of capturing a sense of shattering grief, but it gets too caught up in plot contrivances and coincidences to be believable.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  Neither involving as a study in grief nor compelling as a thriller about conscience, the cat-and-mouse tragedy Reservation Road is a misery windup so schematic and obvious it reduces its crisis-stricken characters to little more than emotional bumper cars.

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  A dramatic situation that should be wrenching is mostly tedious in Reservation Road.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Paints itself into a corner, creating a static situation in which everyone is either stymied or wracked by indecision, leaving the movie free for its two male leads to wallow in self-pity, remorse and bad behavior.

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• 20

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  This is one of those sadistic exercises that puts its characters through the wringer without saying anything true or meaningful.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  A deadly earnest and deadly dull psychological thriller.

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