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

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

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

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.