Escape Room

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

Escape Room unlocks goofy, disposable B-movie fun

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

An entertaining cast and throwback '00s vibe make this PG-13 thriller more fun than it has any right to be.

Sure, Escape Room is not perfect, even by studio horror standards. The movie spends a bit too much time explaining in its final minutes while simultaneously setting itself up fo...

“Escape Room,” a new PG-13-rated horror film, is a sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama. There’s not much of a plot: six d...

There are intimations of “Tales From the Crypt,” “Final Destination,” “The Game,” and other older, better films here; this movie never catches a fire like any of those did, and ...

A group must get through puzzle-solving levels of a deadly mystery game — or die tryin’ — in decent attempt to cash in on pop party fad

The world is rigged in a life-is-a-game thriller (think "Saw" meets "The Game") that offers a scattering of preposterous diversion, until it doesn't.

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 exec says. “I know!” another repl...

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