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Secret Window

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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The story is more entertaining as it rolls along than it is when it gets to the finish line. But at least King uses his imagination right up to the end, and spares us the obligatory violent showdown that a lesser storyteller would have settled for.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It's a taught, entertaining motion picture that serves its purpose.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
A potent psychological thriller bolstered by strong performances and an offbeat sense of humor. What renders it an unsettling cut above many thrillers is the casting of Johnny Depp in the lead.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Bloody, bone-chilling fun.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A jokey, junky potboiler.Read Full Review »
58
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Doesn't keep any secrets but an open one: that Johnny Depp is on a roll, and actor's block is definitely not his problem.Read Full Review »
50
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Instead of taking us someplace we fear to go, Secret Window leads us to a place we've already been -- we know it so well, we could write the book on it ourselves.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
Unsteadily pitched between horror and comedy, Secret Window turns out to be neither terribly scary nor especially funny.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
This Window ultimately feels like one most of us have climbed through before.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
You can boost mediocrity a little, but you cannot raise it from the dead.Read Full Review »
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