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One Missed Call

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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
One Missed Call, one of the five movies he made in 2003, is no more than Miike's shot at generating a polished, rote, expertly composed J-horror flick.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
One Missed Call is so unoriginal that the movie could almost be a parody of J-horror tropes, yet Miike, for a while at least, stages it with a dread-soaked visual flair that allows you to enjoy being manipulated.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Lawrence Van Gelder
Where "Ringu" derived its power from the simplicity of its premise and the purity of its execution, One Missed Call staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Uninspired and painfully familiar.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Jeannette Catsoulis
A poker-faced puzzle whose biggest shock is the absence of Sarah Michelle Gellar.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
This garbled American remake of Takashi Miike's already staticky 2004 exercise in J-horror is a wrong number.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
One Missed Call was originally a so-so Takashi Miike freak-out. Now it's a worse-worse American eyesore.Read Full Review »
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