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Others, The
Dimension Films
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 14, 2002
Video: May 14, 2002
Theatrical: August 10, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / Spain / USA |
Kidman was nominated for a Golden Globe for her lead performance.

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90
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."

90
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.

90
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.

90
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.

90
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom-fit to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's the atmospheric sideshow that earns the highest marks.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A spare, discomfiting score and uniformly excellent performances, and you have a quiet little masterpiece of dark and chilling beauty.

88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A fiendishly subtle horror movie, a goosebump-inducing exercise in suspense that uses your own imagination to scare you silly.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The most sophisticated and satisfying ghost story on film since "The Sixth Sense."

80
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
If you like being scared, you should have fun. Bring a date to hold hands with.

80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A tantalizing spine-tingler.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
A minor-key ghost story with major jolts.

80
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.
80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
You can't take your eyes off Ms. Kidman; she has never played a role with more focused energy.
75
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!"

75
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.

75
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.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.

70
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.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Beautiful to behold but lacking in any kind of palpable dread or suspense.

63
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.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills.
63
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.

60
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.

60
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.

50
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.

50
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.

40
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.

38
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.


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