Michael McNay Guardian Jun 8, 2020

It is efficiently directed by Don Taylor and sanely scripted by Paul Dehn.

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Margaret Hinxman Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 8, 2020

it isn't really up to standard.

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Dilys Powell Sunday Times (UK) Mar 17, 2020

The film is likeable as well as amusing; it even has a note of pathos, something alien from its predecessors.

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Penelope Gilliatt The New Yorker Mar 19, 2019

Rather splendid, rather encouraging.

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Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press Jan 18, 2019

Escape looks more like a made-for television movie than anything else. The first half, in fact, might pass for a situation comedy in which people are amused at apes who act like humans.

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Zaki Hasan Zaki's Corner Oct 31, 2018

...a story that retains its cynical, hard-edged hallmarks while also packing in a considerable amount of pathos.

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Tim Brayton Alternate Ending Aug 19, 2017 3.5/5

Easily the strangest film in the series, and a good candidate for the strangest studio-made genre film of the 1970s.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Apr 9, 2007 B-

Passable entertainment, but it's no fun watching the likable, witty Cornelius and Zira become hairy martyrs.

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 8, 2005 3/5

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Sep 13, 2005 3/5

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Roger Greenspun New York Times May 10, 2005 3.5/5

One of the better new movies in town, and better in a genre -- science-fiction -- that at the crucial middle level where the history of movies is made, if not written, has recently been not so much bad as invisible.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Jul 15, 2004 3/5

The last of the "Ape" sequels that's worth watching.

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Luke Y. Thompson New Times Nov 28, 2003 3/5

Possibly the least of the series, but certainly not a predictable sequel.

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Jules Brenner Cinema Signals Sep 7, 2003 1/5

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Ryan Cracknell Movie Views Jul 17, 2003 3/5

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Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California) Dec 6, 2002 2/5

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Oct 7, 2002 2/5

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