Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It gets off on the highwire fun of living on a digital dare and then pisses away its provocations by lecturing us with a metaphorical take on social media as an STD. What a buzz kill.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The perils of social media may be ripe for the after-school-special treatment, but less expectedly, they make for a half-decent Hunger Games riff.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A successful and memorable thriller.

Name : Nick Patch / Alias : Toronto Star
Like one of its daredevils hanging one-handed from skyscraper scaffolding, Nerve mostly manages to maintain its precarious balance of pulpy suspense and social commentary.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
For about 45 minutes, the movie's engrossing fluff, a stylish cautionary cyber-tale aimed primarily at teenage girls.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
If it collapses in the end by going dark and also bonkers and bringing in hackers ex machina to clean up its mess, well, directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost can say they did it for the feels.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Bright, brisk, and enjoyably silly .

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Joost and Schulman use nearly every trick imaginable to keep Nerve's energy at a consistently high level and to give it a visual uniqueness.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The sharpest, wildest and most unpredictable thriller I've seen this year .

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Nerve looks fabulous and the pace is evenly adrenalized, which makes up for cliched characters, a concocted premise and commentary that is a bit on the nose .

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
[The] screenplay . amounts to little more than a string of flashy stunts before fizzling to a contrived close. For all its hints at imminent catastrophe, "Nerve" feels surprisingly tame.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Franco grins diabolically throughout, and Roberts sounds a bit like a junior version of Sarah Jessica Parker's "Sex and the City" character . otherwise, they're awfully bland, and it's hard to get too invested in their fate.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Nerve gives moviegoers everything they'd want from a teen romance. It's a little less successful as a critique of life in the age of Instagram.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
With its attractive young cast and a multiplatform media campaign, Nerve won't need to rely on going viral to find its audience, but it's unlikely to be trending for long once viewers digest its simplistically cautionary message.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It comes off like a combination of "The Hunger Games," "Saw" and Pokemon Go. Maybe that sounds like a good thing. It's not.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : indieWIRE
Blisteringly cool one moment and ridiculously silly the next, this punchy and propulsive late summer surprise is able to capture the way we live now because it displays such a vivid understanding of the reasons why we live that way.

Name : Anna Smith / Alias : Time Out
Other films - including David Fincher's The Game (1997) - have done this better, but with its engaging story, energetic soundtrack and slick production values, Nerve is an easy watch for restless young minds.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Emma Roberts and Dave Franco are just fine, but there's no huge onscreen spark between them. Most of the supporting roles are thinly drawn and forgettable.

Name : Allen Salkin / Alias : New York Daily News
Clever, exciting, sweet and full of quick twists that never devolve from serving a well-built story.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
An enjoyable teen flick about the glamour and danger of the internet.

Name : Odie Henderson / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Part of me screamed for this film to get off my lawn, but an even bigger part of me succumbed to playing by its rules. Nerve is too much fun to stay mad at for long.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
Not only does it uncannily evoke the feelings of awkwardness, alienation and excitement that come with being a teenager, but it conjures the kind of suspense that will give your armrests a workout.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
"Nerve," let's be clear, isn't a movie to take seriously, yet its fast lunge at topicality - the way it uses the contest at its center as a lightning-rod metaphor for how young adults interact in the digital age - is part of what's fun about it.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Nerve knows we're all playing the game.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"Mr. Robot" meets "Battle Royale". a neon-saturated teenage dream, high on first kisses and digital hearts.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"Nerve" is sharp looking and delivers real jolts, even if the climax pushes things a bit far and wraps up too easily. Or maybe it's an accurate look at what'll happen when "Nerve" becomes real?

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
While the film's vertiginous set pieces are appropriately heart-clenching, it's not nearly as successful at little details like plot and character.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
The film has a fatal messaging problem: it lambasts online group-think and "hiding behind screen names" while also glamorizing the game.

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
Nerve is a dizzyingly of-the-moment good time, a dystopian meet-cute in present-day New York.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The city and the plot points wheel right by, the leads fetchingly entranced with each other. If one patch of dares disappoints, there's another coming right up, and the directors stage and shoot them with swooning neon kinecticism.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Resurgence ends up falling victim to its attempts to differentiate itself while remaining completely derivative.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The results are predictably predictable if rarely entertainingly risible, with swaths of exposition and dialogue that sounds like ads ("one people, one world").

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Want to see things blow up good? Independence Day: Resurgence really delivers. However, if you like a bit of story to go with all those explosions - forget it.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
It's just dull and hollow-a massive waste of time and money.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Disposable and shockingly inept.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
You can forgive Independence Day: Resurgence for being ridiculous - its predecessor was too. But you can't forgive it for being boring.

Name : Jason Solomons / Alias : TheWrap
While it would be foolish to say Independence Day: Resurgence lacks spectacle, scene after scene of the stuff becomes repetitive due to its victimless violence. It feels like no one ever gets hurt, despite the destruction of half the planet.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
It's a non-movie, an insult to the blockbuster genre, and should stand only as a perfect example of Hollywood's more glaring deficiencies as an industry.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
The only thing resurgent in this humorless alien mess is Hollywood's passion to charge us more and deliver less.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The temptation is there to say that Independence Day: Resurgence tarnishes the image of its predecessor but the original Independence Day wasn't all that good to begin with.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Well that was unnecessary.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
From the metallic shell of the 1996 smash "Independence Day," director Roland Emmerich has pulled a seriously lousy sequel, dripping with alien goo and incoherence.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
"Independence Day: Resurgence" delivers swiftly and generously when it comes to the goods most viewers will have come for - the time-honored joys of blowing stuff up, in set pieces that escalate dizzyingly in size and context.

Name : Brian Lowry / Alias : CNN.com
Moreover, the movie keeps announcing over and over exactly how much time is left before the world gets destroyed. In practical terms, that simply reminds the audience that this two-hour exercise feels like a pretty long sit, despite its frenetic pacing.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
An insanely OTT sequel to the already-ludicrous-enough alien invasion smash.

Name : Rita Kempley / Alias : Washington Post
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
The first "Independence Day'' was a lot of fun, with a great lines and cutting-edge special effects. It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth-generation copy with a cast that's shooting blanks when it comes to humor.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The first "Independence Day" had the gratifying slap of good pop cinema, harmless and weightless; the follow-up is twice as big and half as fun.

Name : Jonathan Rosenbaum / Alias : Chicago Reader
The earnestness, the effects, and the notion of a whole world forgetting its differences to defeat a common foe carry a certain charm.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Returning director Roland Emmerich's film checks all the appropriate boxes - wanton destruction, malevolent aliens, B-movie dialogue, rampant silliness - but the old charm just isn't there anymore.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"IDR" moves right along at the rapid clip essential for a story whose general outline is known from the get-go. What actually happens on screen is less important than that it unfolds really, really fast.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
I remember sitting in the theater watching the first Independence Day as a kid, mouth agape at what the movies could do. I'm a little more cynical at this point.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The main thing consumers will be looking for from Resurgence is bang-for-buck entertainment, and that it delivers reasonably successfully.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
I didn't like "Independence Day: Resurgence." You probably won't either.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
The plot is a big jumble of story lines, nonsense science talk and lots of "in '96" references. Speaking of '96, there's nothing even remotely as thrilling or memorable as the first here.

Name : Carol Buckland / Alias : CNN.com
Splendidly cheesy entertainment.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film is so cluttered with characters, exposition and space junk, thickly lacquered with 3D, it's like a party pinata waiting to burst open - but inside are rocks, not toys.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Look, this isn't supposed to be Serious Cinema. I get that. I also know that there is a cinematic place for over-the-top action. I also know that it doesn't have to be stupid, because I saw "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
By the time the big battle happens at the end, CGI has rendered the Earth bleak and unrecognizable; like it's not worth saving.