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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe thrilling premise of Morgan eventually gets muddled amid standard thriller-action, blunting the intended impact of a final sequence that should produce chills, but instead merely provides information. Still, those seeking smart, edgy genre fare will find plenty to savor in this well-cast drama.
- 75ConsequenceRandall ColburnConsequenceRandall ColburnMorgan isn’t hard sci-fi. It isn’t trying to solve the questions that have suffused the genre since its inception. Rather, it couches those ever-more-timely concerns in scenes of high action and affecting character connection.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIs Morgan hardwired for violence, or is “she” just a synthetic naïf with a bloody glitch? Taylor-Joy and the rest of the ace cast make you care about the answer to that question. The script? Less so.
- 75The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe Seattle TimesSoren AndersenAnchored by Mara’s rigidly controlled performance and Taylor-Joy’s tremulous yet quietly menacing work, Morgan is an effective tension generator that unfortunately falls apart at the end.
- 65TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeWhatever its flaws, this is a rare genre movie that allows two women — both Mara and Taylor-Joy are coolly riveting, particularly when they’re playing off each other — to take center stage in both the drama and the action, both of which get pretty intense.
- 50Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSlant MagazineKenji FujishimaThe film's makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s little more than a schlock replay of “Ex Machina.” It toys around with some of the same situations, but it doesn’t know where to take them. Instead of developing its themes, it uses them as grist for an overload of “commercial” action.
- 42The Film StageMichael SnydelThe Film StageMichael SnydelMorgan struggles to make even a single fight between two people not look like it was edited with a shredder.
- 37The VergeTasha RobinsonThe VergeTasha RobinsonThis is a familiar tale: man creates monster, monster runs amuck, man regrets playing God. It's just never remotely clear what Scott and Owen found so compelling about this story that they wanted to tell it again, without meaningful variations, and in the immediate wake of better, smarter, more thrilling versions.
- 25IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandThe film mistakes stiff, literally buttoned up acting — you’ve never seen so many starched and fully done up dress shirts in one film in your entire life — as somehow being clever, but there’s scarcely a moment of Morgan that is genuinely shocking (though the undercurrents with Amy are at least unnerving).