Drop

This first-date gone wrong thriller serves as the filmmaker’s propulsive, infectious tribute to Wes Craven’s Red Eye, resulting in a highly stylized dramatic thriller that’ll leave you fist-pumping to “Yahtzee!”

While it’s never tightly paced or logically coherent enough to actually excite, Drop offers a self-aware take on its silly brand of nervy fun.

A tightly plotted and unpretentious thrill ride. By concentrating on suspense (with only a light sprinkling of snark), Happy Death Day and Freaky director Christopher Landon successfully pulls off the techno-paranoiac premise.

A silly, pulpy mystery entirely sure of its own conceit, “Drop” combines tech paranoia and the looming specter of abuse to create something surprisingly taut and entertaining.

It may be just slick enough in small slivers to win some over, but audiences should raise their standards for what they get out of this date.

The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.

Landon continues his streak of delivering horror comedies. This is easily the same studio that gave us M3GAN, and you bet that’s a compliment. Frankly, we should be getting ten of these kinds of movies every year.

… an engaging Hitchcockian thriller with a very loose relationship with reality.

Drop has some nice thrills, two likable leads, and a nice injection of visual style from Chris Landon. The plot asks for a bit too much suspension of disbelief but it still makes for a fun ride if you're along for it.

Part romance and all gas pedal, Drop is the kind of movie meant to headline SXSW. And once again, Christopher Landon knows just how to make a narrative gimmick into a genre thrill ride.