It's enough to send you home with jiggly knees and a tummy ache.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
It's effectively frightening. It's just not the kind of frightening that stays with you very long, unless of course someone decides to make the same movie . . . yet again.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Pretty much a one-trick pony, and, after a while, that trick loses its ability to impress.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
At least the horror premise here has a hook - a house can spread its curse like a plague to adversely affect all who enter.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Less scary than creepy, The Grudge may have lost some oomph in the translation from Japanese to English, and the desire for a PG-13 rating probably muted the violence and perhaps the scares.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Takes a leaf from the "Psycho" handbook and abandons its star for stretches here and there.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jessica Winter
The overdetermined approach preempts character shadings or social subtext-just compare Hideo Nakata's original "Ring," which tapped its dread from viral-replicant mass culture and its pathos from a broken home, or Nakata's "Dark Water," which channeled the sorrow, guilt, and paranoia felt by a young divorcée mired in a custody battle.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
It isn't frightening. Sometimes, in fact, it's laughable.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
More than anything, The Grudge suggests that it's time for Shimizu to move on.Read Full Review »
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