Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Bacon can play just about anything, and he's having a good time here as a guy not quite smart enough to keep himself out of trouble, but wily enough to try to dig himself out of it. It's fun to watch.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
As a woodland lark that darkens into a road thriller, this movie more or less works. It's simultaneously preposterous and smart.

Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
Watts demonstrates a sadistic patience that's refreshing, especially compared to the usual blockbuster breathlessness.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
[Cop Car features] the most evil monologue of the year. Perfectly, horribly, fantastically chilling.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
"Cop Car" has two kids at its center, but don't mistake this taut, wicked little thriller for a children's film.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
There's something mythic about the story unfolding before us, but the film avoids self-importance.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
Despite the real, bloody stakes, "Cop Car" keeps a boyish sense of action and adventure through to a twist ending. You have a right to remain thrilled.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Part of what makes "Cop Car" such easy viewing is that it doesn't ask much of you narratively or ethically.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A potentially fun premise soon turns into no fun at all in Cop Car, a seriously imagination-challenged low-end action thriller.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
What feels like an accidental mashup of two great pop styles - "Stand By the Killer Inside Me" - soon turns into a nice, grim little entertainment all its own.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
There's no denying Watts' skill at a certain kind of desolate cat and mouse, but it's in the service of what is ultimately a somewhat heartless exercise.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
With his sense of black humor and with a coldly calculating view of a world determined by intransigent laws of physics, Watts recalls the Coen brothers of "Blood Simple."

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Scenes that should take 30 seconds take three minutes. Writer-director Jon Watts does successfully channel childhood, though: He's like a kid short of ideas who triple-spaces his book report.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The film soars early as a fantasy steeped in life and crashes into a drag of a crime drama, one ripped from the movies rather than anyone's idea of small-town Colorado.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Cop Car feels like a great short stretched into a mediocre feature.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
"Cop Car" builds up a nice, suspenseful head of steam, mixing dark comedy and true creepiness in such a way that one mood never overwhelms the other.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
B-movie gold.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Welcome to the End of the World, Adam Sandler-style.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
It manages to achieve the weird feat of feeling overlong and choppy at the same time, like someone edited the film with a pair of garden shears.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is a film in which a viewer can be forgiven for rooting for the old video game icons to annihilate humanity. God help us if the best savior we can muster is Sandler.

Name : John Semley / Alias : Globe and Mail
Pixels is a movie without wit, without jokes, with nothing to say but plenty to regurgitate.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
"Pixels" is a special-effects eyeful burdened by the fact that it is also yet another film in which Adam Sandler plays a man-child who somehow turns the head of an attractive woman.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
This amiable Ghostbusters knockoff is unusually competent for a Sandler comedy.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
The point of "Pixels" - other than some genuinely thrilling SFX of matter evaporating into digitized blocks of confetti - is the dumb message that guys who peaked in middle school totally deserve hot girlfriends because of their awesome gaming skills

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Here's a shocker: In Pixels, his latest, Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child who turns out to be very, very special.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's hard not to look at Pixels and feel like Sandler & Co. missed a huge opportunity here.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
While the concept is a cut above the usual Sandler swill, the comedy isn't. The script might as well have been penned by the same clueless aliens doing the invading.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Long before you've gotten a nickel's worth of entertainment out of this dumb, unfunny flick, you'll be wishing for the flashing sign that says "Game over."

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
I see Pixels as a 3D metaphor for Hollywood's digital assault on our eyes and brains. Not funny. Just relentless and exhausting.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
You get the feeling the boys spent the nine-figure budget on trips to Hooters.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
This is just a lot of chomp-chomp-chomp and point tallies wafting upward whenever something game-oriented is blown up.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
Sandler doesn't appear to be trying terribly hard, and Gad gets sucked into that humor vacuum, going after laughs with a palpable desperation and adopting Sandler's signature move of yelling for no apparent reason.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Even on its own silly terms, Pixels is not a very good movie; it's painted up like a Ghostbusters-style fantasy-comedy but plays like so many slapdash Happy Madison productions before it.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
You can see the calculations of the filmmakers - Hey, let's put in a cute kid! Let's add a funny animated sidekick! - but you can't see why they wanted to make this film in the first place.

Name : Mark Olsen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, while others are assembled with such indifference that you are essentially left waiting for them to start. "Pixels" somehow manages both.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Within the rarified realm of 1980s videogame nostalgia, Pixels is no Wreck-It-Ralph.

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The experience is an exercise in cringing at bad one-liners and stomaching dumb plot devices before saying, "Aww, look, Q-Bert!"

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
For a movie that's supposedly about delivering weightless, uncomplicated fun, "Pixels" is an overwhelmingly sad experience.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
"Pixels" may feel flatter to kids of the '80s than it does to moviegoers too young to have known Pac-Man from Ant-Man.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Often fun and fanciful, though kids may not get the endless 1980s references.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Nostalgia is a wonder and a cheat. The right touchstone can make the most discerning movie-goer forgive a film as lazy as Pixels. Almost.

Name : Sandy Cohen / Alias : Associated Press
Part of the problem is that it's unclear who the filmmakers think their audience is. This is a big-budget spectacle about 1980s nostalgia aimed at kids who have no emotional connection to the decade. Pixels is also insanely sexist.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Though "Pixels" may be hard to respect or fully endorse, it's also impossible to dislike.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Moronic jokes, lame action and depictions of middle-aged neuroses. In other words: a Sandler movie.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Pixels" is a blast of energetic fun . the novelty of nostalgic video game characters as space invaders sustains the film, thanks to the spectacularly executed and original effects.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
A dimwitted '80s nostalgia trip best appreciated by those who have waited years for Adam Sandler's fine-grained intelligence and Chris Columbus' filmmaking mastery to finally converge.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Pixels plays the Ghostbusters card hard, clothing its warriors in matching jumpsuits and swarming them with cheering New York crowds. But these gestures feel unearned.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Good-natured, laugh-out-loud fun.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Theoretically, this could have been a lot of fun, particular for those with fond memories of '80s video gamery.