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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar
Directed by: Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 10, 2001
DVD: May 14, 2002
Running Time: 104 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Spain / USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for thematic elements and frightening moments
Starring Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, and Eric Sykes
A supernatural thriller that begs the question of who to trust, what to fear and what to believe, then topples every assumption. (Dimension Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Only some bumpy, arid passages in the script keep The Others out of the master class occupied by the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and, my favorite, 1961's "The Innocents."
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
An elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for not relying on computer effects.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Though Kidman doesn't hesitate to make Grace high-strung and as tightly wound as they come, she also projects vulnerability and courage when they're called for. It's an intense, involving performance, and it dominates and energizes a film that would be lost without it.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom-fit to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It's the atmospheric sideshow that earns the highest marks.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A spare, discomfiting score and uniformly excellent performances, and you have a quiet little masterpiece of dark and chilling beauty.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A fiendishly subtle horror movie, a goosebump-inducing exercise in suspense that uses your own imagination to scare you silly.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The most sophisticated and satisfying ghost story on film since "The Sixth Sense."
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
If you like being scared, you should have fun. Bring a date to hold hands with.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Some moviegoers are bound to take issue with the trick, "Sixth Sense"-style ending (or cynically see it coming), but The Others is mostly spooky fun, and a strong calling card for Amenabar.
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
You can't take your eyes off Ms. Kidman; she has never played a role with more focused energy.
Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
A classic haunted-house story enshrouded in fog and steeped in portentous atmosphere. It gives you a case of the creeps oh-so slowly, then hits you with a clever, mind-warping way of saying, "Boo!"
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The gimmicks, in the end, are too arbitrary to tie together in a memorably haunting fashion, though they do culminate in a Big Twist, a nifty one that almost -- but not quite -- makes you want to see the movie again.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
There are hints of madness in all the characters, and it gets creepier and more surreal as it goes along until it finally comes to a showstopping climax that took me completely by surprise and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up straight.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
The icy reserve that sometimes stands in the way of Kidman's expressive gifts here becomes the foundation of her most emotionally layered performance to date.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Beautiful to behold but lacking in any kind of palpable dread or suspense.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Kidman gets kudos for giving the enterprise a touch of class, while the film gives the studio's library a rare pedigreed addition.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills.
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
In drawing out his effects, Amenabar is a little too confident that style can substitute for substance. As our suspense was supposed to be building, our impatience was outstripping it.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Isn't much more than a proficient gothic mystery with a final twist that offers a satisfying little frisson before you start counting how many times it's been used before.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The payoff matters at least as much as the setup, and this story's secret is way too easy to guess.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
This is a subdued and sometimes subtle exercise in ghostly doings, going against the horror-movie grain by relying on quietude and understatement.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Wesley Morris
The Others is great as a collection of acknowledgments, but a ghost story made of a bunch of ghoulish thank-yous isn't that haunting.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The big surprise is so obvious that it makes the deliberate pacing seem painfully slow, and Kidman's prissy accent and tight-lipped performance are more than a little grating.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
What Amenabar offers here is an unconvincing, pretentiously artsy pastiche of just about every hoary old gothic thriller you can think of.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 61 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Glen M gave it a10:
I believe this is the scariest move of all time and I have seen The Shining, The Exorcist and Silence of the lambs. It's rare for a horror move in that it has minimal gore but it builds a great tense, spooky atmosphere and really frightens throughout with a twist ending. If you love horror films it's a must see (but don't bother if you think horror movies must be saturated in gore).
Andrew G. gave it a6:
A supernatural thriller that relies too much on Nicole Kidman, (in for me, her best performance to date), dragging it through an hour and forty minutes.
Liridon H. gave it a10:
Awsome movie!!! Great performance by Nicole Kidman. It scared me a lot. Which scared me weren't ghosts or monsters but the saying that sums up the movie : "sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living".
Riren gave it a3:
Morose, pretentious and plodding. Pretty much everything in this movie has been done before, though The Others tries to fool you into believing otherwise by speeding up its narrative at the appropriate times and only pretending to explain itself. Just because this takes place during World War 2 instead of the present doesn't mean it's novel. It just gives the characters new accents. Really, the whole picture has two settings: quiet, and tense, and this lack of range seriously hurts its ability to earn its tension.
Graham M. gave it a9:
This is a great ghost movie. The atmosphere is great and the acting is great.
Laura B. gave it a9:
Great Film, It has an amazing twist and its full of action and has been beautifully made to mix genres to produce a wonderful film. Nicole Kidman is a legend!
G.M. D.K gave it a 10:
One of the best films of all time!
