Deepwater Horizon

“This is very much an ensemble film, with Wahlberg, Hudson and Russell turning in performances that get the job done without begging for attention.”

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch · 88

“An action flick entertaining enough to justify the more than $100 million it took to make it come alive on-screen. And come alive, Deepwater Horizon does, in 107 minutes of terse, tight storytelling, a good 95 of which are white-knuckle tense.”

Bob Mondello, NPR · 85

“Berg offers a visceral experience that overwhelms with startling humanity.”

Michael Roffman, Consequence · 83

“What works almost disturbingly well is the way Berg calibrates his delivery of the disaster while still holding on to the human scale of it.”

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly · 83

“Their chief adversary is the greedy, heedless BP executive played by John Malkovich in his finest slinky-slimy mode. At its best, the movie is like “The Towering Inferno” but without all the sudsy subplots that doused that film’s fires.”

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor · 83