Everest

"A fact-based thriller that’s light on thrills (...) At the end of the film, audiences may feel they have laboriously made the summit, and come back – without getting much of a view (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)" 

"Spectacular and well-acted, this suffers from much the same problem as the situation it depicts — too many people on the mountain and too many threads to follow so that affecting individual stories get lost in the snow. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)" 

"Although hardly a peak achievement, Baltasar Kormakur's Himalayan epic is a properly grueling, strikingly unsentimental chronicle of the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy" 

"A gripping and immersive dramatization (...) You could say Everest is a disaster movie in the old Hollywood sense of the term, but it doesn't feel like one. And that's a good thing" 

"While it's impossible not to be somewhat caught up in these climbers' life-or-death struggle, Everest is oddly uninvolving - it depicts a horrific scenario in an underwhelming, distancing way" 

"Equal parts spectacle and harrowing survival tale (...) with the IMAX-enhanced thrills masterfully engineered to bring its mountain-climbing fears to horrific light."