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38 out of 100

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4.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 51 Ratings

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  • Starring: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Summary: This supernatural thriller is the chilling tale of a brilliant psychiatrist (Berry) who experiences an unwelcome awakening when she is accused of committing a heinous murder she cannot remember. (Warner Bros.)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 36
  3. Negative: 10 out of 36
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    In trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    50
    For a while there, Mathieu Kassovitz's atmospherically charged direction sucks the viewer into the story's hellish vortex. That is until the film becomes possessed by an increasingly ludicrous beyond-the-grave element from which there is no rational return.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    French director Mathieu Kassovitz Frenches this flimsy tale to death. No scene goes underplayed, no performance (save one, from Robert Downey Jr.) lacks volume, no horror cliche is forgotten.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 40
  3. Negative: 15 out of 40
  1. LearnFrenchWithGilbertMulroneycakes
    7
    Lots of dumb. Lots and lots and lots and lots of dumb. And on that level, lots and lots and lots and lots of fun as well. It's not very "good" in the classical sense, but you can't review a film in any terms but its own, and on the level it's shooting for - the juxtaposition of lots o'dumb and lots o'fun - it pretty much hits the target. Not the sort of thing that should have Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz and Downey in it, though. Not the kind of movie you'd pay the price of cinema tickets to see, either. One to rent (but not from Blockbuster), ideally on a dark and stormy night, in a darkened room with a truckload of popcorn and your girlboy next to you - because there's even a little bit of the Bruised Forearm factor going on here, and that's never a bad thing.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. RandyM.
    7
    Gothika was overall an average movie, but it proved to have some very terrifying moments witch will make your heart beat like you would not believe. It's that scary.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. RitaP.
    5
    Not bad as a horror movie/ supernatural thriller but not a film you would watch again.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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