A relatively second-rate script and lackluster direction on Jarecki’s part leaves the film a sadly less than riveting experience.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2023

While Crisis falls short of its potential, it's not a complete failure - it simply needed more attention to the story development.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2023

Ultimately, it's hard to get emotionally invested with these thinly written characters.

Full Review | Dec 17, 2021

A flawed, yet compelling drama looking to educate audiences unfamiliar with the full scale and chilling horror of America's opioid addiction crisis.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2021

Jarecki ably juggles the narrative concerns in a carefully balanced manner that takes time to flesh out detailed concerns specific to each perspective while making sure all are given their due, equal weight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2021

Three intersecting stories - in the style of the far superior Traffic - about the opioid pandemic in the United States, directed with skill and with a competent cast. Unfairly relegated by problems not really related to the quality of the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 24, 2021

Jarecki doesn't pretend to offer solutions, but his film does reveal how lost we can all get in the mix.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2021

If I walked out of Crisis with the amount of knowledge and awareness that I learnt, then it was a time well spent .. and I didn't walk out with just that.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 19, 2021

...the story remains topical and compelling enough to hold attention, aided by its strong cast and the ever-intense Gary Oldman.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2021

There's no denying its timeliness, offering a compelling look at what will certainly be remembered as one of the most underplayed tragedies of our time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2021

Somewhat muddled in its message but accurate in its heart, "Crisis" doesn't knock down any doors, but does bring to the weekend-watch crowd some excitement inside some real-world problems

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2021

One of the narrative strands is particularly hard-hitting and compelling, pointing to the profiteering and homicidal activities of the giant pharmaceutical companies.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2021

An out-of-another-era movie, a starry, location-heavy, issues-driven feature melodrama in the age of streaming miniseries... How do you alert moviegoers to a punchy powder keg pitting Big Pharma and its talons against fumbling by the feds?

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 17, 2021

An effective drama/thriller about the opioid crisis that shows three separate situations that ultimately come together to blatantly shine a light on the problem while still entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.0 | Jun 11, 2021

Crisis could have made an appropriately sprawling streaming series, but as a two-hour film, it is still an admirable and passionate effort from the talented Jarecki.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 9, 2021

Crisis is the type of movie that slaps a few random facts from Wikipedia about opioid addiction over its end credits and considers itself profound.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2021

The first narrative film on the opioid crisis and will surely be the best for years to come.

Full Review | May 21, 2021

While this multi-story film doesn't quite pack the punch for taking this problem seriously in its scattershot methodology, there's at least an ample ambition in trying to broaden this picture to be far more than just one genre of drug drama.

Full Review | May 19, 2021

Thankfully with interesting character arcs, the film scrapes by being full labelled as an 'issue' film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2021

Crisis invites us to reflect on an invisible enemy that grows bigger every day and whose ravages have become normalized to the point of horror: the addictions created by opioids and the silence that companies keep [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2021