Songbird

Critics Consensus

Muddled, tedious, and uninspired, Songbird's gimmick never coalesces into a meaningful story about pandemic lockdown.

10%

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Movie Info

Immune to the COVID-23 virus, a courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a quarantine camp.

Rating:

PG-13 (Some Bloody Images|Sexual Material|Partial Nudity|Some Strong Language|Violence)
Genre:

mystery and thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

Adam Mason
Producer:

Michael Bay, Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman, Eben Davidson, Jeanette Volturno-Brill, Jason Clark, Marcei A. Brown
Writer:

Simon Boyes, Adam Mason
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 11, 2020
Runtime:

1h 30m
Production Co:

Invisible Narratives, Platinum Dunes, Catchlight Studios, STX Films
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

K.J. Apa
Nico

Sofia Carson
Sara

Craig Robinson
Lester

Bradley Whitford
William Griffin

Peter Stormare
Emmett Harland

Alexandra Daddario
May

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Critic Reviews for Songbird

All Critics (68) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (61)

This Michael Bay-produced travesty exploits the coronavirus epidemic for thrills. That's right, for thrills.

December 17, 2020 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…

Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
Songbird isn't very good, which you might expect for something thrown together so quickly.

December 13, 2020 | Full Review…

Rebecca Onion
Slate
[It] eventually converges in a way that feels at once hopelessly contrived and pitifully narrow...

December 12, 2020 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
Best to leave this package unopened on the stoop.

December 12, 2020 | Full Review…

Angie Han
Mashable
Its gimmick is the pandemic, but it doesn't have anything interesting or insightful to say about it.

December 11, 2020 | Rating: D- | Full Review…

Adam Graham
Detroit News
Even if one sets aside all potential moral arguments about the very existence of Songbird, it's still just really bad.

December 11, 2020 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…

Brian Tallerico
RogerEbert.com
Songbird is a missed opportunity its own right as it isn't much good but its bigger problem is that it can't help leaving a sour taste because it's based on a situation that has caused genuine grief and despair to hundreds of thousands of people.

January 13, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Paul Mount
Starburst
This movie isn't going to make anyone feel better...because it's lame.

December 28, 2020 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Steven Prokopy
Third Coast Review
The source of this terrible film is the schlocky producer Michael Bay.

December 27, 2020 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
An appalling melange of insipid disaster drama and implausible romance with a bit of dystopian satire thrown in. This is a crass cash-in meant to prey on our pandemic anxieties, not grapple with them.

December 23, 2020 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
There's certainly something to say about a film's timing, and Songbird misses what should be obvious-don't release a film about an apocalyptic pandemic to an audience currently in the middle of one.

December 21, 2020 | Full Review…

Katey Stoetzel
The Pitch
Being a ragged piece of work cobbled together during Covid restrictions (with Demi Moore its biggest name), it needs all the vim it can get, but its ideas don't provide much.

December 21, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

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