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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The submarine drama, which opens today, has everything you could want from an action thriller and a few other things you usually can't hope to expect: an excellent script, first-rate performances and a story that has more to do with individuals than explosions. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Directed by Tony Scott, Crimson Tide is the kind of sumptuously exciting undersea thriller that moves forward in quick, propulsive waves. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Crisp as the creases in its naval officers' uniforms, this tale of seething conflicts aboard an American submarine on the eve of nuclear war is strictly by-the-numbers, but hardly ever are traditional elements executed with such panache. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Oddly enough, Crimson Tide develops into an actors' picture, not just an action movie. There are a lot of special effects, high-tech gadgets and violent standoffs, yes, but the movie is really a battle between two wills. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    While skillfully crafted to maximize visual excitement and dramatic fireworks through the first hour, relentlessly paced pic sports a fancy new package for a rather shopworn doomsday scenario that unravels to increasingly familiar effect as the finale breathlessly approaches. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    The scenario may be dumb and predictable, with a wimpy ending to boot, but it's also sort of fun. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Go see it, get the adrenaline rush, and then go home and forget about it. It's noisy and fun, but that's all it is. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Most egregiously, the filmmakers set up a classic struggle between right and wrong and then, in a coy coda, refuse to take a stand. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    Nothing better than boys with really big toys. Especially when the boys are men like Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, top talents who duke it out among the nukes in the propulsively pulse-pounding undersea thriller Crimson Tide. [12May1995 Pg.01.D] Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Crimson Tide is better watched for its toy appeal and high-priced talent than for any real suspense over where Hunter's mutinous instincts will lead the story. Read full review

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