Knowing is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Yes, Knowing is creepy, at least for the first two-thirds or so, in a moderately satisfying, if predictable, way.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
Whatever else Proyas has done in Knowing, he has created an ending that is sure to divide audiences into camps of love it or hate it, deeming its message either hopeful or hopelessly heavy-handed. For me, it doesn't quite work; still I'm glad he took the risk.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Science fiction fans will feel gypped, disaster movie fans will appreciate about 10 minutes of screen time and be bored by the rest, and no one else will care.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Knowing has about a half-dozen screenwriter credits, which may explain why scenes crash up against one another - smart, stupid, far-fetched, compelling. And the trouble is that Cage walks (or runs) through them all, treating each with the same level of intensely goofy seriousness.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The draggy, lurching two hours of Knowing will make you long for the end of the world, even as you worry that there will not be time for all your questions to be answered.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
If you're of a mind to believe a dreary and far-fetched thriller about numerology-crazed alien life forms, then you may find the movie mildly diverting.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Starts off mildly ridiculous, ascends to the full-blown ludicrous, and finally sails boldly off the edge of the absolutely preposterous.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.Read Full Review »