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Metascore
22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Screen RantFerdosa AbdiScreen RantFerdosa AbdiThe film is an effective, thrilling, frightening horror, perfect for those who enjoyed Bird Box and are thrilled by the prospect of more.
- 64The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerThanks to a couple of novel twists, it manages to outpace its predecessor in tension and originality—if not quite reinvigorate the franchise.
- 60IGNMatt DonatoIGNMatt DonatoBird Box Barcelona ekes by thanks to dependable and lived-in performances, but overstays its post-apocalyptic welcome across its almost two-hour duration.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe movie is technically accomplished, well-acted, atmospherically unsettling and certainly watchable. . . But as genre material, it’s generic.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandBird Box Barcelona has strayed so far from what made the first film interesting, scary, and yes, timely! that it remains but a distant memory, as if someone pulled a blindfold over our collective cinematic memory, for no real reason whatsoever, with no answers to ever be found.
- 40EmpireJames DyerEmpireJames DyerA largely uninspiring re-tread of a superior film, this has some decent moments and enough gnarly deaths to keep horror hounds vaguely entertained until the inevitable arrival of ‘Bird Box Santorini’.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThough slick and more expansive in some ways, with bigger action sequences, it proves an overlong, uninvolving entry, in which any attempted fresh wrinkles to this fantasy universe offer scant viewer reward.
- 25The Associated PressLindsey BahrThe Associated PressLindsey BahrThere is no thrill, entertainment or insight to be gleaned in watching the myriad ways people can die by their own hand. It’s just awful, and this is not a film that is interested in grappling with the trauma in any interesting or helpful way. Instead it is two hours of unpleasant drudgery.