Edge of Tomorrow
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 6, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
35
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow is the ultimate metaphor about Tom Cruise’s career. You can’t kill this guy. He’ll just keep coming. And he remains arguably the biggest movie star in the world for a reason. He brings it. Read full review
95
Film.comJames RocchiJun 3, 2014
A mix of forward-looking sci-fi, classic themes, deft plotting and superb writing and direction, Edge of Tomorrow may be the pure-pleasure blockbuster to beat this Summer. Read full review
91
HitfixDrew McWeenyMay 30, 2014
The reason the film works is because it throws everything into the blender and comes up with something new, something that has a great lively sense of wit and humor to it, and it takes the time to fully explore its wild premise fully. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 5, 2014
It's a star-driven mass-market entertainment that's smart, exciting and unexpected while not stinting on genre satisfactions. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 5, 2014
Liman keeps the action and surprises coming nonstop. OK, the end is a head-scratcher. Until then, Cruise and Blunt make dying a hugely entertaining game of chance. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 5, 2014
The movie has an organic intelligence and a sense that it, too, exists outside of linear time. It seems to be creating itself as you watch it. Read full review
85
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMay 22, 2014
For a film about repetition, Edge of Tomorrow never feels tired or familiar. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 4, 2014
An entertaining, effects-driven black comedy, with shades of "Starship Troopers" in its depiction of warfare as a futuristic turkey shoot, the movie is distinguished more by how fluidly it handles its high-concept premise than where it takes it. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 4, 2014
Despite its terribly unimaginative title, Edge of Tomorrow is a surprisingly imaginative summer action movie. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanJun 4, 2014
Liman stages the chaotic action scenes, including several iterations of the beach assault, with clarity, precision, and wit. This is his best movie since 2002's "The Bourne Identity." Read full review
80
TimeRichard CorlissJun 6, 2014
A furiously time-looping joy ride and the smartest action film of the early summer season. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow repeats itself without being repetitive, takes itself seriously while providing some laughs and offers plenty of action without short-changing us on the intelligence front. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJun 4, 2014
Crucially, Cruise knows just how to pace Cage’s shift from cowardly to courageous. Yes, we get cool effects and impressive machinery. But he and Liman add unexpected humor and genuine tension to the seasonal thrill of blowing stuff up. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamMay 23, 2014
The breakneck pace leaves little room for meaningful character development... But there’s imagination, spectacle and thrills to spare. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinMay 23, 2014
A playful and frantic science-fiction twister which mimics the best (Aliens, The Matrix, Groundhog Day) while offering something fresh and — most importantly — thrilling. Read full review
80
VarietyJustin ChangMay 22, 2014
The pleasure of Edge of Tomorrow is that it’s not an action movie first and foremost, but rather a cheeky little puzzle picture in expensive-looking blockbuster drag. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJun 6, 2014
At its best, Edge of Tomorrow plays like a tripwire time-travel thriller. As it progresses, though, the built-in repetition can, and does, grow tedious. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereJun 5, 2014
All in all, a perfectly superior example of industrially fortified Hollywood fun, and as good a guarantee as Doug Liman can offer that we haven’t seen the last of him yet. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 5, 2014
The fact is that this is a pretty good summer-kablooie movie, and Cruise is better than pretty good in it. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 5, 2014
Offers a more satisfying cinematic experience than "Oblivion." Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow covers familiar ground with unexpected wit and economy, and the result is a thoroughly entertaining sci-fi fantasy. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 5, 2014
I'm not sure Edge of Tomorrow holds much repeat viewing potential among teenage movie consumers, since the movie's a self-repeating entity to begin with. But once is fun. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 5, 2014
Like summer movies themselves, it’s become so easy to be glib in dismissing Tom Cruise. “Edge of Tomorrow” provides welcome and hugely entertaining evidence that he’s still a star of considerable gifts, and savvy enough not to let them be squandered just yet. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow may be the best video game movie ever made. Which is strange since it isn't actually based on a video game. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickJun 4, 2014
A Tom Cruise action flick with a strong female heroine and a sense of humor? Edge of Tomorrow has both of those, plus a “Groundhog Day’’-style gimmick that pays big dividends. Over and over. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 6, 2014
It’s probably no great loss, but here and elsewhere the seams show. And in this sort of movie it’s often more fun before we get our bearings and have time to say, “This makes no sense.” Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 5, 2014
In Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. Liman brings Mr. Cruise’s smile out of semiretirement and also gives him the kind of physical challenges at which he so brilliantly excels. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 5, 2014
They might also have called it "Groundhog Day 2," but that wouldn't have conveyed the film's martial frenzy, its fascinating intricacies or the special delights of its borderline-comic tone. Read full review
70
The DissolveKeith PhippsJun 3, 2014
Edge Of Tomorrow’s finale can’t live up to what’s come before, though that’s mostly because what comes before is so rich and unusual, particularly in the middle of a summer blockbuster season that doesn’t always value richness or novelty. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonJun 3, 2014
The Wile E. Coyote fatalities are fun, but it's that repetitive moment of horror that holds this bipolar stunt together: Cruise, bug-eyed and gasping for breath as he shakes off his fear and grimly prepares for the next suicide mission. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 6, 2014
Cruise is better than he’s been in a while because he damps down his usual all-intensity-all-the-time MO. He’s best here when his character seems the most scared. And Emily Blunt as a commando legend is indomitable, a credit to her exoskeleton. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow is slick, but once its fancy plot dressing takes form, it has little more to offer aside from a few impressive action sequences and the infallible grin of its nimble lead. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 4, 2014
Cruise and Blunt have a measure of chemistry, however their characters go undeveloped, given short shrift amid the spectacle. But the pulse-pounding action scenes are briskly directed by Doug Liman. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEric HendersonJun 4, 2014
Tom Cruise's participation transmutes, as it always does, everything around him, turning the movie's series of false starts, dead ends, and hard lessons into a working metaphor for his own career. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 3, 2014
Cruise and Blunt have only as much chemistry as the script allows. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 29, 2014
Thank heavens, then, for the time-loop gimmick, which sustains a full hour of screen time with enough variations on its gambit to hook you in. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeMay 23, 2014
The film’s Groundhog Day-meets-Independence Day plot is actually pretty genius. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 5, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow isn’t good, but it’s also forgivable. Just please stop the "Top Gun 2" rumors, Tom. Please. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 5, 2014
By design it’s monotonous, and with so much clunky hardware, Liman can’t generate the same pace he produced in the “Bourne” movies. Edge of Tomorrow has neither an edge nor a vision of tomorrow that matters today. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 5, 2014
I felt unable to decide between this movie is the most badass thing ever and OMG turn it off. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJun 4, 2014
This is an action flick for those who like form over substance in their popcorn movies which explode onscreen every summer. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 22, 2014
Although the humor helps, the Groundhog Day-like repetition gets tedious; it makes you feel more like a hamster than a groundhog — or rather a hamster's wheel, going round and round, over and over again. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 29, 2014
It is basically deadly serious, and after some moderate knockaboutfun, settles into something pretty dull. Where's the edge? Read full review
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