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The Dead Zone
Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    88
    Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Kim Newman
    80
    It has some of that episodic 'compressed miniseries' feel which a lot of King pictures get stuck with (the book was later redone as a TV serial with Anthony Michael Hall) but still manages a lot of powerful material.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    80
    A well-acted drama more eerie than terrifying, more rooted in the occult than in sheer horror.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    80
    David Cronenberg turns The Dead Zone into an accomplished psychological thriller.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    It never really chills you, but then it never insults you, either, and it's more affecting than you expect any film based on a Stephen King novel to be. [22 Oct 1983]
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  7. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jay Scott
    63
    The Dead Zone, from the book by Stephen King, a horror novelist whose prolific output is the scariest thing about him, is academic filmmaking all the way, a crafty Establishment tour de force. [21 Oct 1983]
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  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    50
    By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
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