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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The GuardianAdrian HortonThe GuardianAdrian HortonThere’s plenty to keep many viewers watching for its 1 hour, 44-minute runtime. But given the bare characterization for everyone and the total lack of chemistry between Hart and Mbatha-Raw (despite her best efforts), not enough to elevate Lift above its many forgotten peers.
- A fun if by-the-numbers heist movie that brings the laughs, but doesn't stand out from the crowd.
- 50IGNIGNDespite a talented cast and great director, Netflix’s Lift proves to be an exceedingly unremarkable heist film.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeLift doesn’t seem to trust viewers enough to withhold details. It’s too insecure, too eager, too anxious to be mysterious. Its tricks are not so much revealed as word-vomited through clunky exposition.
- 33IndieWireSamantha BergesonIndieWireSamantha BergesonThe real crime of “Lift,” however, is not that its poised as an “Ocean’s” movie lacking all of the glamour. No, it’s that director F. Gary Gray has made some incredible films in the past and “Lift” simply isn’t one of them. This is the filmmaker behind Oscar-nominated “Straight Outta Compton.” This is the director who helmed the American remake of “The Italian Job.”
- 30VarietyMichael NordineVarietyMichael NordinePractically every scene is a cliché, every line of dialogue an echo of a better one you’ve already heard in a better film.
- 30The New York TimesRobert DanielsThe New York TimesRobert DanielsHart possesses neither the charisma of Cruise nor the charm of Redford necessary to shoulder these action movie mechanics, a failure that demonstrates what happens when character actors are told they’re movie stars.
- 20ColliderErick MassotoColliderErick MassotoAt the end of the journey, Lift ends up as a double disappointment. It doesn’t work as a comedy, it doesn’t work as an action film, and its claim to the heist movie subgenre is tenuous at best.