Captive State: reviews

What the critics say average 5.4 from 5

• 9.0 VarietyJoe Leydon this rigorously intelligent, cunningly inventive, and impressively suspenseful drama plays more like a classic tale about a disparate group of resistance fighters united in a guerrilla campaign against an occupying force. Read full review Read
• 6.0 The GuardianBenjamin Lee "A jumble of themes and ideas jostle for space in an audacious, but often messy, film that takes a familiar alien invasion set-up and goes for broke". Read
• 5.0 The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd "There are few signs of life in the curiously dour alien-occupation drama Captive State". Read
• 4.2 IndiewireMichael Nordine Embedded in all this is a would-be message about those who trade freedom for security, the human spirit, and so on and so forth, all of which is too muddled to register with the intended force. Captive State is many things at once ? or at least it?s trying to be ? and every match it lights along the way is quickly snuffed out. Read full review Read
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck Visually murky, choppily edited and lacking both narrative clarity and well-defined characterizations, Captive State is a deeply frustrating viewing experience. It seems to be straining mightily for a future cult status which it doesn't deserve. Read