In trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A plot that insults, betrays, and cheats every member of the audience. Stupidity to a degree can sometimes be forgiven. Stupidity to this degree can not and should not.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
The movie gets a mild boost when her escape briefly takes it from just another crummy supernatural thriller into an OK escape melodrama, albeit one dependent on a whopper of an unlikely occurrence.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
For those who want nothing more than a thorough scare, Gothika is effective. But for those of us who want some psychological insight with our frightfests, the film is sadly lacking.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: David Ng
Quickly abandoning the psychological for the supernatural, the movie collapses its premise into one painfully derivative pitch.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
For most of the movie, however, Halle sprints, Halle swims (55 laps!), and Halle screams. It's a two-hour fitness video -- a portrait of the Oscar winner as personal trainer.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
They go about scaring you, but only in the most hackneyed and cheap-shock manner.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
How anyone in the cast manages to keep a straight face is one of the film's innumerable mysteries.Read Full Review »
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