A remake of the 1986 suspense ''classic,'' is as processed and hoot-worthy as the original.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
This is a mechanical gore-fest that offers preposterous stunts in place of escalating tension and waxwork mannequins in place of marginally interesting characters.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie genuflects toward pop depth in a scene where Grace sprawls on a motel bed watching Alfred Hitchcock’s "Birds," another thriller about implacable, undefined evil, but there’s a difference between refusing to give viewers the answers and having nothing to say. For all its death-metal vigor, The Hitcher falls into the latter camp.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mark Olsen
The original film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
If you boil off dialogue, performance, narrative logic and grind a movie down to the nub of genre, will there be any suspense left? The answer is yes, but only in a Pavlovian sense. You react to this dull shockathon like a wired lab rat who's seen it all before. And guess what? You have.Read Full Review »
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