60
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe big picture here is so elusive and vast that it helps Cowperthwaite to have a few intrepid investigators to follow, letting their research drive the shape of the film (which, when you unpack it, must have been one hell of a task to structure).
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe Grab is more informative than polemical, and plays as a dry — sometimes suspenseful, often fact-packed — treatment of the subject.
- 75Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeSlant MagazineRoss McIndoeThe Grab makes a clear choice to conclude not just with doomsaying, but with a call to action and a look at the things that can still be done to avert a global crisis.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergThe Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergIts topic is unquestionably a crucial issue for our age and its approach to that topic both has journalistic rigor and represents a thoroughly admirable depiction of journalistic rigor at a moment at which we put too little value on such things.
- 50IndieWireRobert DanielsIndieWireRobert DanielsHalverson is too far on the deep end to provide us with digestible storytelling, and Cowperthwaite, who spends the movie jumping in nonlinear fashion from one year to the next, is in no rush to make the larger picture easier to see.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussSan Francisco ChronicleBob StraussWhat “The Grab” doesn’t do quite well is sell its argument or weave its many disparate, admirably reported discoveries into a graspable whole.
- 50RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsBoth an overstimulated multimedia lecture and an anxiety-stoking conspiracy thriller, “The Grab” urges viewers to follow the money, look at the big picture, and so on.