The Hollywood Reporter

Craig Lahiff’s feisty genre outing is a neat surprise.

Variety

Packs enough pace, suspense and quality thesping to overcome some minor plot wobbles.

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

A confident and exciting genre film, and that's certainly not nothing, but it has a slight impersonality that marks it as either a calling card or a work for hire.

The Dissolve by William Goss

Driven by Paul Grabowsky’s deceptively jaunty score, Swerve is ably performed and tightly paced... But it doesn’t stick the landing.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

There are a few too many twists on this highway.

New York Post by Sara Stewart

The film strains credulity as it hurtles toward its conclusion.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The fatalities and clichés escalate, as the wife plays the femme fatale, and the men run circles around one another amid the dust, blood and some tonally off, ill-conceived cutesiness.

Village Voice by Nick Schager

The photogenic cast's looks far exceed their featureless performances, and any mood of sunshiny malevolence is undercut by too many studied directorial compositions.

The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth

For the most part, the most shocking thing about Swerve is how utterly straightforward it is.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Despite the revved-up start and a suitably dusty setting, the movie stalls almost immediately. The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Clarke tries to inject some energy into the action, but even he seems to realize this ride’s going nowhere.