No Exit - Movie Reviews (2024)

It’s not a Hitchco*ckian masterpiece, but it is a fairly intense, claustrophobic roller-coaster ride. Liu gives a solid performance as Darby, a damaged and insecure pariah who is compelled by circ*mstances to face overwhelming odds to protect a stranger.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2023

Damien Power takes the simple premise of his screenwriters and builds an immersive atmosphere through single-location filmmaking, where the camera work and the score are technical highlights in a visually fascinating work.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2023

Damien Powers squeezes the most out of his resources. No Exit is a surprisingly effective white-knuckle type. A cold and claustrophobic nail-biter that’s more effective than most.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2023

No Exit has an interesting enough story, that it pulls you in to what to see where this goes. The first 30 minutes and some character choices feeling like a waste of time. As an engaging mystery thriller it can be very entertaining and engaging!

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 26, 2022

Taut and delightfully nasty, No Exit is a thriller with more than a few surprises up its sleeve.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2022

No Exit is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery thriller with layered characters, and unexpected twists. Director Damien Power seems to have fully understood the potential of his cast and script and deftly gets the most out of both.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It may get a little carried away in its gnarly final 20 minutes or so, but it does such a good job keeping its audience locked into every crazy (and in some cases blood-soaked) new twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

It doesn’t do anything particularly ground-breaking or emotionally resonant, but this does do a stellar job of being “pretty damn good”, and that’s all you really need for a thriller like this.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 26, 2022

...improves considerably once it progresses into a surprising and impressively brutal midsection...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2022

Two blah movies in one, stirred together like peanut butter and glass cleaner. Consume at your own risk.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 10, 2022

So what we have here is a rarity: a nasty, borderline nihilistic, trashy single-location thriller with a tight script and strong performances. "No Exit" plays remarkably fair by the genre's standards

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

No Exit’s script ladles on the usual plot twists and body horror, introducing new, grisly ways to assault flesh and bone. But the tension is lukewarm.

Full Review | Apr 26, 2022

A rather generic thriller that spills its beans too quickly and never develops any genuine rising tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2022

This Hulu thriller is professionally constructed, with a few well-placed twists and turns, and it may be worth a look, but it somehow lacks a real pulse; it can't truly make the adrenaline flow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2022

Latterly, however, as the violence and gore take unjustifiable precedence, the filmmakers find themselves unable to stem the flow, instead creating bloody set-piece after bloody set-piece, most of which you’ve seen before.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2022

A lean screenplay & a terrific performance by Havana Rose Liu help shape a compelling thriller as it subverts expectations & holds viewers' attention.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2022

This is an effective movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2022

It's got all of these wonderful thriller elements to it... Every single piece that is introduced has a role to play, and it's all orchestrated like a beautiful chess match.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2022

I love this movie... This is the kind of movie where a nail gun becomes a weapon, and all the right people get nailed.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2022

No Exit is modest in scale, but it delivers very well within the parameters it sets for itself.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 9, 2022