The Hunt for Red October: Critic Reviews

96%

MovieWeb: 3 reviews

95%

RottenTomatoes: 46 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Full Review » 22 years ago
Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)

Full Review » 9 years ago
Hal Hinson Washington Post (Top Critic)

A leviathan bore, big, clunky and ponderously overplotted.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

A Reagan youth's wet dream of underwater ballistics and East-West conflict.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

A skillful, efficient film.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rory L. Aronsky Screen It!

80

It is a thriller in some sequences, action in others, but it depends on personal taste, how many thrills you believe a movie should have in order to be considered a thriller
Full Review » 3 years ago
David Ansen Newsweek

Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

88

As for the film's suspense credentials, you know it's time to get tense when James Earl Jones intones, 'Mother of God.' [Blu-Ray]
Full Review » 4 years ago
Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

80

The Soviet captain has a brogue. I'm okay with it. Sue me.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin A. Ranson MovieCrypt.com

100

For all its flaws, it still holds water.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS)

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan

100

Exciting submarine adventure w/Connery, Baldwin
Full Review » 8 years ago
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

60

Regressive old-fashioned thriller of a sort that mostly died out 20 years earlier.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jules Brenner Cinema Signals

100

Full Review » 8 years ago
Spence D. IGN Movies

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

67

Delivers its share of honest to goodness thrills.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Dan Lybarger Nitrate Online

60

Solid if somewhat staid adaptation of the Clancy book.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nick Schager Slant Magazine

Politics aside, however, The Hunt for Red October is a thrilling edge-of-your-seat trifle that has admirably withstood the test of time.
Full Review » 9 years ago