78
Metascore
46 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100ColliderMarco Vito OddoColliderMarco Vito OddoWith BlackBerry, Johnson manages to craft a thrilling and moving story about friendship, pride, and the brutality of the free market.
- 100The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossThe PlaylistRafaela Sales RossIt is a loving — and highly entertaining — ode to the outcasts who dream of nothing more than a life filled with fixing whirring gadgets and afternoons spent in “Star Trek” matinees.
- 97The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzBlackBerry is funny, fast and nerve-rattling. And it is always – always – intensely entertaining.
- 90Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallJohnson and co-writer Matthew Miller turn the story of RIM’s brisk rise and meteoric fall into a kind of breathless tech fever dream, a relentless but addictive downbeat human comedy about the struggle to stay on top in a fast-moving industry.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe film, at least, feels fresh, making geek history more entertaining than it has any right to be.
- 75The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorBaruchel and Johnson, bouncing off each other in a classic straight man/loudmouth two-hander, are a fine double act. As their would-be foil, Howerton is even better, and I loved the contrast between the actor’s soft mouth and the foul-mouthed stuff spewing out of it. Michael Ironside and Rich Sommer are given welcome cameos.
- 75TheWrapRobert AbeleTheWrapRobert AbeleThe condensing of consequential shifts in fortune into relateably tense, humanly funny scenes is admirable, and the tech aspects are never too confusing that they pull away from the story’s stakes.
- 75Slant MagazineChris BarsantiSlant MagazineChris BarsantiBy emphasizing the people in its tech tale, and the comedic possibilities in their mismatch, rather than the gee-whiz factor, Matt Johnson frees BlackBerry from the need to convince its audience how important the invention at its center was.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyIt’s an affectionately told story of Canadian innovation, loss of innocence and of unlikely bedfellows making entrepreneurial magic.