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What Lies Beneath

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
There's a great, Hitchcockian suspense sequence in a bathtub.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
You feel you've been both a little creeped out and vigorously entertained. Its showmanship comes through in the clutch.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Ford and Pfeiffer deliver craftsmanlike work, but the film steadily unravels as Zemeckis tries to ratchet up the suspense.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Jeff Giles
A slick but surprisingly empty genre movie that builds to a not particularly shocking shock.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
Never reaches much beyond the surface, and what lies there is all too predictable.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The scares are Hichcock hand-me-downs.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Suggest a Clintons-at-home scenario for 2001 -- haunted by the ghosts of dalliances past.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Dumb, dumb, dumb - borrowing scare tactics from Hitchcock and other suspense masters, but forgetting basic story.telling essentials such as character development and logical exposition.Read Full Review »
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