The Lodger
Metascore
17 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 8 out of 8
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    33
    It takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    30
    The film might amuse some, especially fans of Alfred Hitchcock, but is likely to annoy almost everyone else.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    The biggest mystery, perhaps, is why accomplished actors such as Molina and Hope Davis agreed to be in this.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    30
    What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    A good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    20
    Nodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    20
    Prostitutes are not the only things butchered in The Lodger, a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    0
    Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.

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