This is no splatter movie: spare, suspenseful and brilliantly invested in silence, Bryan Bertino's debut feature unfolds in a slow crescendo of intimidation.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
This is one of those rare horror movies that concentrates on suspense and terror rather than on gore and a high body count.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ed Gonzalez
Bertino teases with the unknown until he's left no pimple ungoosed. Sometimes avoiding the synapse-raping bad habits of splat packers Eli Roth and Alexandre Aja is its own reward; doing so without also submitting to Michael Haneke–style hand-slapping is nearly monumental.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Bryan Bertino, stages The Strangers' early scenes with spooky panache...But then comes the blood, the shrieking midnight chase scenes, the anything-goes over-the-top-ness. In other words, everything that we liked the movie for not being.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie deserves more stars for its bottom-line craft, but all the craft in the world can't redeem its story.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
No one is getting at anything in The Strangers, except the cheapest, ugliest kind of sadistic titillation.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A horror film with a moral. No matter how nasty a gang of murderers is, the moviemaker calling the shots is ultimately worse.Read Full Review »
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