Never Let Go - Movie Reviews (2024)

Name That Plot - I can guess the ending in five minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 11, 2024

There were moments when this threatened to become this year’s Beasts of the Southern Wild or Fallen, but sadly those were just fleeting, the creators instead seemingly content to play things far more conventionally.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 9, 2024

I can't stand it when a movie gives up its own rules.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2024

A better version of the material might have kept its audience guessing - but this one tries, and fails, to have its tree bark and eat it too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2024

Halle Berry’s performance lends gravitas to a lightweight horror story from Alexandre Aja

Full Review | Oct 4, 2024

Don’t Let Go is part folk horror, part delusion-driven thriller, but director Aja makes certain we’re never quite sure what the truth is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2024

Despite its conceptual and formal strengths, the film fades into a peculiarly slight curiosity — a compelling, if misdirected, work of contemporary American Gothic.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2024

Personally, I liked it. Light on blood and gore, its strength lies in the unraveling faith this tight-knit family has in one another. Did I have questions? Sure, but they aren’t going to keep me up nights.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2024

This is my favorite type of thriller that keeps you guessing and makes you analyze everything. Chilling, unsettling, creepy… this is the most stressed I’ve been in a movie theater in years.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2024

Something, anything else, would have enlivened the experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 2, 2024

Never Let Go plays with the current trend of monster movie tropes that rely on in-universe rules to set the horror narrative but adds a few grimdark elements to raise the creep factor and offer a completely unique tale of terror.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2024

There are so many types of horror Never Let Go wants to be, a desperation that only grows more frantic as the film progresses.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2024

It’s a curiosity, notable for Halle Berry doing good work in spite of what’s happening around her.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2024

Never Let Go is marketed as a horror movie, but it's more of a bleak psychological drama about mental illness. Although it's oddly intriguing about what will happen next, the story becomes repetitive and clumsy, with an ending that falls flat.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2024

Unfortunately, Never Let Go drops the ball, along with the bloodstained machete, just when it should be ramping up the tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2024

Berry is quite good, as expected. Leaning on character details suggesting someone with a dark past that has found the light, only for that logic to reveal other dangers. As a horror film, it doesn’t offer much beyond effective jumps and eerie atmosphere.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 30, 2024

It takes the concept of a snake in the grass and intertwines it with people who look like actual snakes. It shouldn’t work as well as it does, but Never Let Go manages to be a twisty and winding thriller that intrigues far more often than it terrifies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 30, 2024

ever Let Go never manages to answer any of a number of recurring questions adequately, and the movie makes no more sense than one of those head-scratchers by M. Night Shyamalan, which it annoyingly resembles.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2024

The plot eventually unravels, weighed down by a script mistaking ambiguity for complexity. The mythology, built on generational rituals, becomes convoluted and repetitive, with cryptic lore and ominous warnings losing their impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/ 5 | Sep 30, 2024

Never Let Go has an intriguing story, excellent acting, but misses the mark through its lack of information and out-dated CGI.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2024