Dangerous Animals has a committed cast, knockout direction, a stellar script, it looks gorgeous, the edit is the tightest I’ve seen from any movie this year, and it’s a ripper of a flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 26, 2025

Dangerous Animals is original, intense, and thrilling—qualities sorely missing from much of modern horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2025

That [Dangerous Animals] should exploit [fetishistic] obsessions and make us gleefully willing subjects of them reveals not shoddy writing, but a deft and knowing hand. The bait is out, and it is fresh.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

Creature feature meets slasher values in this unique and blood-thirsty genre film that turns shark film conventions on their head. Man is the real monster in this impossibly tense eco-thriller that sees Byrne continue his run of edge-of-your-seat horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2025

Dangerous Animals is no Jaws (1975). What films are? But it is a sharp little horror flick that blends serial killer and shark tropes together well as Byrne and Courtney surprise the audience.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2025

The kills are brutal, the killer is sadistic (yet charismatic), and the sharks are HUNGRY. I highly recommend Dangerous Animals, especially for the shark fanatics.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2025

Harrison … is a Final Girl for the ages, making Zephyr’s fear and resolve feel entirely earned. Courtney has always been one of those guys who never quite jelled as an action hero …, but is shockingly good as a full-out maniac.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2025

In this instance, at least, a shark film can have its chum and eat it, too.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2025

Dangerous Animals is passable, but it feels like playing in a pool instead of swimming in the ocean. If you haven't experienced the latter, then the former is perfectly acceptable. But once you've gone out into the deep blue sea, there is no going back.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jul 13, 2025

And after unsuccessful attempts at leading man roles (Divergent, Terminator Genisys), it’s nice to see Courtney cutting loose and leaning into his weird scumbag stage (see also The Suicide Squad).

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2025

It’s fun to see a serial killer-killer shark mashup ... not to mention the way Nick Lepard’s screenplay turns the man-shark dynamic into a larger theme about trauma and those who repeat their trauma unto others.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 11, 2025

As far as it all goes, having a murdery shark guy is a pretty good idea, and Dangerous Animals proves that well enough for 90 minutes.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2025

Byrne's knack for building suspense pays off in spades here. It certainly doesn't hurt that he's got two standout performances from Jai Courtney and Hassie Harrison as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2025

Treats its viewers to a better time than its protagonist has.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2025

It’s a riveting, bloody, mean little thrill ride that moves faster than a mako and is guaranteed to have audiences screaming.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2025

A serial killer thriller/shark movie/true romance, Dangerous Animals might juggle too many elements in its straightforward, breakneck path, but it's an entertaining B-movie buoyed by Hassie Harrison's enjoyable lead performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2025

An excellent neo-ozploitaion survival horror with a brilliant performance by Jai Courtney as the deranged killer, Tucker.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2025

Fun serial killer flick with Jai Courtney having a lot of fun!

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 27, 2025

Dangerous Animals is a simple idea, executed with some style and intelligence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2025

Jai Courtney delivers the performance of his career in Dangerous Animals…

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 24, 2025