Escape Room unlocks goofy, disposable B-movie fun

A harmlessly nerdy fad is the obvious premise for "Escape Room," a predictable thriller. Logan Miller stars.

Admit it: when you first heard there was a horror movie about a killer escape room coming out, you rolled your eyes, didn’t you? This puts Escape Room in a...

This PG-13 horror cash-in on the popular group activity can't get past being a movie about other people solving puzzles.

Weird movie season gets off to a pretty good start with “Escape Room,” a modest thriller…

Cheap horror thriller leaves you longing for a good dinner theater experience

Six friends enter a deadly game in this horror. Read the Empire review.

Adam Robitel's thriller 'Escape Room' deals out death to those who can't solve riddles in time.

Familiar horror tropes and a well-trod storyline get livened up, thanks to an appealing cast and some mind-bending puzzles.

The anything-goes, amusement park nature of escape room design, coupled with the fact that the open-ended premise allows for easy retroactive character-build...

The amped-up psychological thriller “Escape Room” pretty much accomplishes what it sets out to do and does it fairly well.

This flat attempt to map contemporary anxieties over the template of more grisly films like Saw only "recalls the mechanized horror trend while sanding off i...

You can almost imagine the conversation that resulted in “Escape Room”: “What’s the latest trend we can make a movie out of?” one greedy studio exe...

Six players — a war veteran, a grocery stock boy, a finance guy — navigate challenges that turn deadly in this less-than-inspired thriller.

[This review could be considered “spoiler-ish.” No specificreveals, but a lot of general hints.]For roughly the first 75 minutes of Escape Room, I though...

A sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama.

“The craftsmanship in here  is just terrifying!” one wag declares in “Escape Room,” a line perhaps meant to flatter the director or the screenwriter...

'Escape Room' turns the pop locked-room game into a so-so horror-movie premise — at least you won't be running for the exits. Our review.

Ideally, a film like this should set out to bamboozle not just the characters but the viewer as well.

As far as PG-13 horror films released in January go, Escape Room exceeds expectations despite a fairly sloppy (yet efficient) set-up which traces three of th...

★☆☆☆☆The Crystal Maze gets homicidal in this preposterous horror thriller that pitches six luckless contestants together in a specially converted C...

A group of strangers navigate a series of deadly tricks and traps in a movie that, if nothing else, does what it says on the box

The world is rigged in a life-is-a-game thriller that offers a scattering of preposterous diversion, until it doesn't.

A smart script and clever art direction elevate the puzzle-obsessed not-quite-horror movie.

A smart script and clever art direction elevate the puzzle-obsessed not-quite-horror movie.

There’s just enough cleverness in Escape Room to enjoy that this bad-horror-movie experience becomes more discouraging than droll.