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Metascore®46 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

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

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

  • 83
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    It's a relentlessly downbeat, well-acted melodrama that's easy to admire, but intentionally impossible to enjoy. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia 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. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The book tore at my heart; the movie left me strangely unmoved. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    The best efforts of the performers cannot authenticate a plot that no longer feels inevitable. It feels contrived. And the audience stays at a remove instead of entering someone else’s nightmare. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk 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. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    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. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

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

  • 40
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    Reservation Road itself may twist and turn into the New England night, but emotionally and dramatically, the movie that bears its name is a dead end. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

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