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I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten

Critics Consensus: N/A

Critics	Score	Number of Reviews	Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics	54%	28	5.20/10
Top Critics	20%	10

Metacritic: 46 (11 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK) 2/5 - There can be great satisfaction in a thriller that ends by forcing you to re-evaluate everything you thought you just saw. But ideally, there should be a bit more to the process than turning to the person next to you and muttering “what?”

Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK) 2/5 - If only Verity were up to the task. If only it were sexy. Or camp. Or fun. Or even just silly. If only it didn’t deliver narrative exposition via the hot sauce-based, online celebrity interview series Hot Ones.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 2/5 - After a sensational opening sequence, the film gradually unwinds, and the entirety of the third act disintegrates into a shower of small substandard plot points that don’t convince.

Guy Lodge, Variety - A flat-footed dud, at once overwrought and underplotted, and barely propped up by A-list stars who look either embarrassed, confused or indifferent to be there.

David Ehrlich, IndieWire B- - “The Housemaid” was a clear reminder that a good actress can elevate this kind of material high enough to enjoy at ground-level. “Verity” has two of them, and Hathaway seems to be having the time of her life.

Richard Lawson, The Hollywood Reporter - The movie is neither sexy nor smart, despite the objective hotness and intelligence of its performers.

Radheyan Simonpillai, Globe and Mail - Really, it’s just incoherent, the ultimate revelations exposing how little sense these characters and their actions make, which we wouldn’t be dwelling on so much if Verity at least knew how to be sexy or intriguing, or have more fun, along the way.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - Ridiculous right up to a conclusion that’s simultaneously deflating and incoherent, it’ll make for an amusing night out at the theaters, albeit not in the way the filmmakers envisioned.

Kristy Puchko, Mashable - It's sort of weird, sort of sexy, and sort of funny. But ultimately, it feels criminally constrained by mainstream prudishness.

Linda Marric, HeyUGuys 3/5 - It is difficult not to enjoy a film this committed to its own particular brand of nonsense. It knows exactly who its audience is, gives them plenty of twists, glamour, sex and melodrama, and delivers some excellent performances along the way.

SYNOPSIS:

Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity's chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.

CAST:

• Anne Hathaway as Verity Crawford
• Dakota Johnson as Lowen Ashleigh
• Josh Hartnett as Jeremy Crawford
• Ismael Cruz Córdova as Corey
• Brady Wagner as Crew Crawford

DIRECTED BY: Michael Showalter

SCREENPLAY BY: Nick Antosca

BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Colleen Hoover

PRODUCED BY: Nick Antosca, Alex Hedlund, Stacey Sher, Michael Showalter, Jordana Mollick, Anne Hathaway, Colleen Hoover

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kerry Orent, Dakota Johnson, Lauren Levine

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jim Frohna

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Amy Williams

EDITED BY: Jay Cassidy

COSTUME DESIGNER: Jacqueline Demeterio

MUSIC BY: Volker Bertelmann

CASTING BY: Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey

RUNTIME: 114 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2026

Ahead of the release of Avengers Endgame: Encore, we're taking a look back at the critical reception of Avengers: Endgame from its original release in April 2019.

Rotten Tomatoes: Certified Fresh

Critics Consensus: Exciting, entertaining, and emotionally impactful, Avengers: Endgame does whatever it takes to deliver a satisfying finale to Marvel's epic Infinity Saga.

Critics	Score	Number of Reviews	Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics	94%	551	8.20/10
Top Critics	93%	91

Metacritic: 78 (57 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Victoria Luxford, BBC.com - Eleven years of Universe building, and this is the crescendo. It really pays off, I've never seen anything quite like it.

Stephen Romei, The Australian 3/5 - It is this part of the story, the human side, to narrow it down to our marginal planet, that holds the movie together for its three-hour run time.

Amy Nicholson, FilmWeek (LAist) -. This is a feat of engineering... I felt a sense of catharsis finishing it.

Roxana Hadadi, Chesapeake Family Magazine 3.5/5 - It would be nearly unfathomable to have spent more than 20 preceding films with these characters and not feel anything at the end of the sometimes tedious, mostly satisfying Avengers: Endgame.

Oliver Jones, Observer 3.5/4 - What you will be getting when you walk into an inevitably overstuffed movie theater is something singular that reflects our age in a way that none of the MCU films that preceded it have-indeed, very few Hollywood spectacles ever have.

Jordan Hoffman, Times of Israel - The 3-hour culmination of 22 chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is worth going back in time and watching again.

Matthew Norman, London Evening Standard 5/5 - The only complaint about Avengers: Endgame is that it raises the bar so high that there may well never be a superhero movie to match it.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker - What's missing from "Endgame" is the free play of imagination, the liberation of speculation, the meandering paths and loose ends that start in logic and lead to wonder.

Simran Hans, Observer (UK) 4/5 - The final battle is giddily cathartic, but the catharsis arises from prioritising character development over plot and spectacle. This, I imagine, will be the Avengers' legacy.

Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader 2/5 - The MCU will go on and on, but this chapter - and the American pragmatism vs. American ideals bromance that drove it - have well and truly come to their "Excelsior! Nuff said!" moment.

Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups 3/5 - It's fun to see all these character threads unravel, and knit up, as the movie waddles toward its big but indifferent climax of Avengers versus Thanos.

Dana Stevens, Slate - Endgame consists almost entirely of the downtime scenes that were always secretly everyone's favorite parts of these movies anyway.

Mark Kermode, Kermode & Mayo's Film Review - It feels like a curtain closing...there was an elegance in the way they moved toward conclusion. No fan is going to watch and feel short-changed.

Perri Nemiroff, Perri Nemiroff (YouTube) - ...A wonderful, rousing payoff in the context of the big battle and as wildly inspiring imagery.

Anupama Chopra, Film Companion 4/5 - Avengers: Endgame makes you keenly aware of the passage of this time.

Chris Stuckmann, ChrisStuckmann.com A- - A rousing finale. Epic in scale and in heart.

Kevin Maher, The Times (UK) 4/5 - It's overdone and bombastic. A fitting end, in other words, to a franchise cycle of insatiable commercial ambition...and thundering creative swagger.

Dwight Brown, National Newspaper Publishers Association - Avengers: Endgame should make a lot of people happy for about three hours and one minute, solid. It's all that audiences could have possibly hoped for.

Adam Kempenaar, Filmspotting 4/5 - The MCU has generally successfully balanced planetary and personal stakes. Endgame is a worthy culmination of that storytelling approach.

Matthew Rozsa, Salon.com 3/4 - There are horror movies and political dramas with premises less nightmarish than the one in "Avengers: Endgame... This is an interesting approach for a superhero film to take.

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker -. You can easily duck out during the middle hour, do some shopping, and slip back into your seat for the climax. You won't have missed a thing.

Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com - If there were ever a movie designed to please its target audience, Endgame is an emblematic example. Anthony & Joe Russo manage to juggle the many components of this mosaic with finesse, & despite the outsized running time the movie seldom lags.

Bob Mondello, NPR - No matter how much homework you've done, what actually happens, the order in which it happens and the folks to whom it happens will still pack surprises - also tongue-in-cheekiness and quite a bit of lump-in-throatiness.

Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle 4/5 - Endgame has a few tricks up its sleeves that keep going right back to the heart.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - Hitting its every note with expert precision, it's a triumph of humorous, action-packed, poignant blockbuster filmmaking.

Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader 3.5/4 - A film that should feel overlong and overstuffed rings purposeful, weighted with existential truth even as it flashes before our eyes.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor B - Despite all the whiz-bang CGI effects, some more special than others, the moments I most appreciated in Endgame were the small-scale comic touches... Best of all is Robert Downey Jr.

Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register B+ - Builds to an impressively ambitious finale, highlighting both the strengths and the limitations of the franchise as a whole.

Kim Newman, Sight & Sound - The last-reel battle pretty much has to be the most satisfying superhero movie set piece of all time, delivering the multiple closures this long-in-the-telling saga needs.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro Newspaper (UK) 5/5 - Avengers: Endgame feels like the blockbuster to end all blockbusters.

Chris Hewitt, Minneapolis Star Tribune 3/4 - It's an episodic movie, so it shines in parts, rather than as a whole, but there are plenty of good parts.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 4/5 - The MCU's long goodbye to the Avengers (is it really?) comes off as truly epic and thunderously exciting. But here's the big surprise-it's also an emotional wipeout.

Jake Wilson, The Age (Australia) 3.5/5 - For young adults who have literally grown up with these movies, the experience may be emotionally overwhelming.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times 4/4 - The Motion Picture Academy never recognizes great acting if it comes attached to a costume or a cape. That doesn't mean Downey isn't deserving of an Oscar. It's great acting in a great film.

Nicholas Barber, BBC.com 3/5 - [I]t is slick and affectionate enough for its three-hour running time to pass quickly.

John Wenzel, Denver Post 3/4 - The MCU sticks this landing, allowing us to let go of years of baggage and get ready for the next flight.

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine - It's an entertainment designed to please many, many people and disappoint as few as possible, extravagant without necessarily having a vision beyond its desire not to put a foot wrong.

Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service - Perhaps the Russos have made the final installment of the series this lackluster to make it easier to say goodbye to the superheroes, in this iteration. We really don't need another one. Not like this.

Radheyan Simonpillai, CTV's Your Morning 2.5/4 - Endgame is the participation trophy you get after committing 11 years to these characters.

Tasha Robinson, The Verge - It was designed to cap a decade of buildup around a single gigantic story... In that sense, it's certainly a triumph: it's ambitious, towering, and above all, daring in its difference.

Geoffrey Macnab, Independent (UK) 4/5 - This is a movie that dazzles you with its spectacle, provides plenty of irreverent slapstick and gags along the way and yet still ends with a huge emotional kick.

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe 3/4 - The movie is ludicrously long, clocking in at three hours and one minute, but surprisingly satisfying.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal - Succeeds at its daunting task: summing up an epic struggle with bedazzling action... and with more humor, zest and feeling -- the real, heartfelt stuff -- than you'd dare to expect from what is, after all, an immense industrial undertaking.

Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair - Endgame offers a rich assemblage of movement and detail, full of winning digressions and loyalty-rewarding callbacks.

Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com 3/4 - This is a solid adventure that fans will go nuts for.

Brandon Katz, Observer - Endgame is a movie that is nothing you'd expect but everything you want.

A.A. Dowd, AV Club B- - An earnest, overstuffed, fitfully funny superhero melodrama, Endgame hits the buttons it wants to hit, and sometimes affectingly.

Adam Graham, Detroit News B+ - "Endgame" contemplates big-picture themes within a superhero framework and delivers a hugely entertaining ride worthy of its monumental buildup.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post 4/4 - In a sense, "Endgame" is an example of the MCU cannibalizing itself, but it has always done so. And it does so here in a fresh way that is closer to homage than lazy appropriation.

Nell Minow, Movie Mom A- - A completely satisfying conclusion...with a deep understanding of the characters and a truly remarkable ability to find a nuanced balance between canon and innovation.

Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic 3/5 - The franchise has its ups and downs; the first "Avengers" film is certainly a highlight. But the sequels have the wisecracking-superteam formula on lockdown. They always deliver everything fans could hope for - except maybe any genuine surprise.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out 4/5 - Endgame often pays tribute to itself, which makes it as fascinating as it is self-serious. It taps into a live wire of doomy tragedy and phoenix-like rebirth that comics do so well.

Esther Zuckerman, Thrillist - Endgame reinforces that there's still a beating heart beneath all the machinery.

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com 3/4 - In terms of sheer entertainment value, it's on the higher end of the MCU, a film that elevates its most iconic heroes to the legendary status they deserve and provides a few legitimate thrills along the way.

Hannah Strong, Little White Lies 4/5 - A potent reminder of all that's good and bad about movies.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday 3/4 - What "The Deathly Hallows" was to "Harry Potter," what "Return of the Jedi" was to the original "Star Wars," this gargantuan "Endgame" will be to the "Avengers."

Danny Leigh, Financial Times 3/5 - The japey inter-hero rivalries and beyond-state-of-the-art visuals go down as easily as always in a formula which, if never quite revolutionising the comic book saga, gave it a much-needed overhaul...

Peter Howell, Toronto Star 3.5/4 - Mathematicians say infinity has no end. Avengers: Endgame thrillingly and movingly proves them wrong.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times 3.5/4 - Oh yes indeed. "Avengers: Endgame" brought it.

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture - Even at three-plus hours, the gargantuan Avengers: Endgame is light on its feet and more freely inventive than it needed to be.

Wenlei Ma, News.com.au 4/5 - A spectacle that is genuinely affecting and packed with properly exciting moments that will literally make you draw your breath, clap and whoop, and jump out of your seat.

Tim Grierson, Screen International - After more than a decade and nearly two dozen pictures, the first era of the MCU comes to an imperfect, crowd-pleasing end with "Avengers: Endgame," a bulky film tasked with resolving myriad plot points and perhaps even more emotional through-lines.

Kristen Lopez, Culturess - Endgame certainly showed there was one and it was just what we needed.

Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle 3.5/5 - "Endgame" is the most emotional of the Avengers movies, a tear-stained farewell that effectively tugs at the heartstrings while simultaneously blowing them up with a large army's worth of CGI warfare.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle 3/4 - It's a quality action movie that accomplishes, with seeming ease, a number of difficult things.

Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly - Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have somehow crafted a coherent and exhilarating epic that incorporates all your favorite superheroes (and many of their loved ones) in one emotionally resonant package.

Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine 1.5/4 - Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.

Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK) 4/5 - I can't recall a film in this cinematic universe or any other that works as relentlessly and ingeniously to keep delighting its audience than this.

Helen O'Hara, Empire Magazine 5/5 - A victory lap that moonwalks through the best part of the MCU back catalogue and emphasises emotion as much as action, this is an intensely satisfying piece of blockbuster filmmaking.

Mark Daniell, Toronto Sun 4/4 - We haven't seen anything like this before in franchise movie-making. One can only hope that the next 10 years of Marvel storytelling comes close to this.

Eric Kohn, IndieWire B- - As "Endgame" sputters to the finish line, it leaves the impression of witnessing a Marvel Movie Marathon compressed to three hours - and 58 seconds, but trust me, they're disposable - of unbridled fan service.

Jake Coyle, Associated Press 3/4 - More than any of those franchises, "Endgame," at its best moments, carries the thrill of classic comic-book twists and reversals.

Anne Cohen, Refinery29 - Endgame is truly a masterful piece of storytelling, which both goes exactly where you expect it to, and not at all.

Alex Abad-Santos, Vox 4.5/5 - The most shocking thing about Avengers: Endgame is that there are several moments within this colossal movie that feel like a Marvel miracle.

Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail 2/4 - [T]he entire endeavour loses any sense of emotional stakes or general meaning beyond the deliverance of crass fan-service and incomprehensible visuals.

Brian Truitt, USA Today 3.5/4 - If the Marvel superhero movies on the whole are your favorite band's individual albums, "Avengers: Endgame" is the triple-disc greatest-hits package with the really awesome cover and a slew of familiar, comforting gems inside.

Angie Han, Mashable - This is Marvel flexing, building on over 10 years and 20-plus films of careful groundwork and intricate planning to show us what it can do that no other movie franchise can. As such, it's an immensely satisfying finish to this era of the series.

Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 3/4 - You have to hand it to the directors for their ambition in bringing together a clown car full of characters into such a well-told and compelling yarn.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 3/4 - [E]xtravagant - and mostly very gratifying.

Robert Daniels, 812filmreviews 2.5/4 - For now, the cast, crew, and creators of the past decade may rest easy on a sun-drench porch with the knowledge that [Endgame] accomplished their ultimate goal. For better or for worse.

David Sims, The Atlantic - The Avengers, as a concept, probably won't be going anywhere, but Endgame still feels like a proper goodbye.

Brian Lowry, CNN.com - Having set up a formidable task and then some with the finish of "Infinity War," "Avengers: Endgame" rises to the challenge, delivering an epic finale that proves immensely satisfying.

A.O. Scott, New York Times - At its best - and "Endgame" is in some ways as good as it gets - the "Avengers" cosmos has been an expansive and inclusive place.

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly B+ - The movie largely delivers, splashing its ambitious three-hour narrative across a sprawling canvas of characters, eras, and not-quite-insurmountable challenges.

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter - [W]hat comes across most strongly here, oddly enough for an effects-driven comic-book-derived film, is the character acting, especially from Downey, Ruffalo, Evans, Hemsworth, Brolin and Paul Rudd as Ant-Man.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 5/5 - I have to admit, in all its surreal grandiosity, in all its delirious absurdity, there is a huge sugar rush of excitement to this mighty finale, finally interchanging with euphoric emotion and allowing us to say poignant farewells.

Peter Debruge, Variety - After the must-see showdown that was 'Infinity War,' the Russo brothers deliver a more fan-facing three-hour followup, rewarding loyalty to Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap - Has almost nothing on its mind but crossing the Ts and dotting the Is of a far-flung superhero saga, but to anyone with even a minor emotional stake in the MCU, it has the fleeting satisfaction of a shot of whipped cream direct from the spray can.

Matt Singer, ScreenCrush 8/10 - A gargantuan love letter to Marvel's equally enormous mythology.

Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times - To these faintly moistened eyes, "Avengers: Endgame" achieves and earns its climactic surge of feeling, even as it falls just short of real catharsis.

Donald Clarke, Irish Times 3/5 - Endgame spends too much time wallowing in its own pompous mythology.

SYNOPSIS:

The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured the Avengers ranks compels the remaining Avengers to take one final stand in Marvel Studios' grand conclusion to twenty-two films, "Avengers: Endgame."

CAST:

• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
• Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
• Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / The Hulk
• Chris Hemsworth as Thor
• Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
• Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye
• Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine
• Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man
• Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange
• Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther
• Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
• Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
• Karen Gillan as Nebula
• Zoe Saldaña as Gamora
• Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / The Wasp
• Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie
• Rene Russo as Frigga
• Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch
• Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / The Falcon
• Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier
• Tom Hiddleston as Loki
• Danai Gurira as Okoye
• Benedict Wong as Wong
• Pom Klementieff as Mantis
• Dave Bautista as Drax
• Letitia Wright as Shuri
• John Slattery as Howard Stark
• Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One
• Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
• Haley Atwell as Peggy Carter
• Natalie Portman as Dr. Jane Foster
• Marisa Tomei as May Parker
• Taika Waititi as Korg
• Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda
• Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym
• Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne
• William Hurt as Secretary Thaddeus Ross
• Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill
• Sean Gunn as Kraglin
• Winston Duke as M'Baku
• Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
• Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Jasper Sitwell
• Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Akihiko
• Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
• James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis
• Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
• Vin Diesel as Groot
• Bradley Cooper as Rocket
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
• Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce
• Josh Brolin as Thanos
• Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
• Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

DIRECTED BY: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

SCREENPLAY BY: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely

PRODUCED BY: Kevin Feige

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo, Trinh Tran, Jon Favreau, James Gunn, Stan Lee

CO-PRODUCERS: Mitch Bell, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely

BASED ON THE MARVEL COMICS BY: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Trent Opaloch

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Charles Wood

EDITED BY: Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt

COSTUME DESIGNER: Judianna Makovsky

VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: Dan Deleeuw

SENIOR VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCER: Jen Underdahl

VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCER: Lisa Marra

MUSIC BY: Alan Silvestri

MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Dave Jordan

CASTING BY: Sarah Halley Finn

RUNTIME: 181 Minutes (Original Release) / 183 Minutes (Avengers Endgame: Encore) / 186 Minutes (Avengers Endgame: Encore - Infinity Vision)

RELEASE DATE: April 26, 2019 (Original Release) / September 25, 2026 (Avengers Endgame: Encore)

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh

Critics Consensus: N/A

Critics	Score	Number of Reviews	Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics	96%	25	6.90/10
Top Critics	100%	8

Metacritic: 69 (14 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Linda Marric, HeyUGuys 4/5 - True to Ayer’s style, Heart of the Beast is unabashedly a film tailored for a certain audience: a straightforward, traditional tale about men, loyalty, survival and doing what’s necessary. Go to Full Review

Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press 2.5/4 - It never strays far from the formula, but while often predictable, occasionally implausible and sometimes even straight propaganda, it’s an effectively thrilling adventure and Pitt can shed a tear (actually, many) like the best of them.

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire B- - The visible, palpable, real bond between James and Odin (and then, of course, Pitt and Uber) would take a heart of stone not to be touched by.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety - There’s a way to sum up Heart of the Beast, and that’s by saying, “This is a terrific performance -- and Brad Pitt is extremely good too.”

Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter - Don’t be fooled. Heart of the Beast is actually a love story, and one of the most moving to come along in a long time. That it’s a love story between a man and his dog doesn’t at all detract from its emotional impact.

Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK) 4/5 - Pitt, Ayer, Uber and their collaborators are not reinventing the wheel here, but rather crafting the sturdiest entertainment of its type that they can. Much like lovely Odin, it is a film that knows exactly where its loyalties lie.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 3/5 - Heart of the Beast is a bit cheesy and the final moments will test your credulity, but Pitt is the right guy in the right film.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - A survivalist adventure that won’t make anyone forget Jack London but may, by its conclusion, compel bros to reach for the nearest box of Kleenex.

SYNOPSIS:

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements. From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer, Heart of the Beast is an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend as they face their greatest battle yet.

CAST:

• Brad Pitt as James Belmont
• Uber as Odin
• J.K. Simmons
• Anna Lambe

DIRECTED BY: David Ayer

SCREENPLAY BY: Cameron Alexander

PRODUCED BY: Olivia Hamilton, Marty Bowen, David Ayer, Brad Pitt

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Damien Chazelle, Scott Lumpkin, Cameron Alexander, Chris Long, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, Andrew Lary, Sophie Cassidy, Zack Conroy

CO-PRODUCER: Richard Raymond

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mauro Fiore

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Greg Berry

EDITED BY: Dody Dorn

COSTUME DESIGNER: Amanda Neale

MUSIC BY: Jared Michael Fry

CASTING BY: Tricia Wood

RUNTIME: 101 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: September 25, 2026