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92I've not stopped thinking about it -- weighing might-have-beens and alternative courses of action, as though remembering an actual event rather than a nimble, superbly-realized fantasy. That's a first-rate achievement.
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88A triumph of low-budget filmmaking.
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88A taut, consistently surprising political thriller with a sting in its tail.
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75The kind of movie that leaves you with fundamental objections. But that's after it's over. While it's playing, it's surprisingly good.
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A taut and thought-provoking thriller .
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75One of the pleasures of Deterrence is that it does not tell the audience what to think.
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75There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.
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70A surprisingly gripping experience.
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63A carefully conceived and earnest movie that announces its many points just a bit too carefully and earnestly.
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60Lurie undermines his high-wire act with the melodramatic carryings-on of the diner patrons.
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60Foreigners who argue that Americans are Neanderthal savages can point to this movie as persuasive evidence.
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50The setting is cramped and the story is illogical, but it's suspenseful as long as you don't think about it very hard.
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50There's nothing super about the movie, aside from a loopiness that affords it a certain guilty-pleasure cachet.
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50A tense geopolitical thriller that leaves a curiously bad aftertaste.
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50Ultimately this is a radio drama made into a movie with a single set.
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50Begins and ends with footage of FDR intoning "I hate war," something the film takes two interminable hours to say.
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50Probably serves some useful purpose, despite its ham-fisted preachiness and mediocre acting.
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40Steadfastly conventional.
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33A new political thriller, has an ending so egregiously stupid that not to reveal it would be a disservice to moviegoers.
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25To say this movie's premise is bonkers is putting it mildly.
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25Ludicrously written and appallingly directed by ex-film critic Rod Lurie, seems to pride itself on the fact that it never (ever) leaves the greasy-spoon milieu in which the president and his staff are trapped by heavy snowfall.
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The plot twists fall about as weightily as the fake snow.
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20Well-intentioned but hardly well-executed.
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10In short, let nothing deter you from staying home.
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