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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Craig Lahiff’s feisty genre outing is a neat surprise.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenA confident and exciting genre film, and that's certainly not nothing, but it has a slight impersonality that marks it as either a calling card or a work for hire.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThere are a few too many twists on this highway.
- 60The DissolveWilliam GossThe DissolveWilliam GossDriven by Paul Grabowsky’s deceptively jaunty score, Swerve is ably performed and tightly paced... But it doesn’t stick the landing.
- 50New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartThe film strains credulity as it hurtles toward its conclusion.
- 40Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerThe photogenic cast's looks far exceed their featureless performances, and any mood of sunshiny malevolence is undercut by too many studied directorial compositions.
- 40The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe fatalities and clichés escalate, as the wife plays the femme fatale, and the men run circles around one another amid the dust, blood and some tonally off, ill-conceived cutesiness.
- 25The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthFor the most part, the most shocking thing about Swerve is how utterly straightforward it is.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDespite the revved-up start and a suitably dusty setting, the movie stalls almost immediately. The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Clarke tries to inject some energy into the action, but even he seems to realize this ride’s going nowhere.