Unravels in a series of spooky dream sequences, dopey detective work, and a couple of richly hambone-ian De Niro soliloquies.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The best that can be said about the film is that its naturalistic look and dark hues are occasionally intriguing, and its twist is fairly unpredictable, if far-fetched.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's a thriller, a bad thriller, completely lacking in psychological or emotional truth.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The umpteenth recycled shocker about a mystical dark child with an aura of disaster.Read Full Review »
A consistently underused and often underrated actor, Kinnear gives one of those sympathetic performances that prevent you from believing the worst about a movie despite the sounding alarms.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The picture, which fails to achieve its ambitions or to fulfill our expectations, is ultimately worse than a violent piece of hack work, in which the director isn't interested in displaying his integrity -- or taste. You'd be better off downloading the trailer: a much more convincing piece of storytelling.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
As the film's boo! moments get spookier and more frequent, Godsend gets more and more inane.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Every scare is telegraphed. Every surprise is recycled from a better thriller. Even the devil would send this one back.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Mark Holcomb
The pivotal plot twist isn't hard to predict, and Brit theater vet Hamm and screenwriter Mark Bomback rely on jolts that date back to the silent era.Read Full Review »
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