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74 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 83 Ratings

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  • Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Nicole Kidman
  • Summary: A supernatural thriller that begs the question of who to trust, what to fear and what to believe, then topples every assumption. (Dimension Films)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    An elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for not relying on computer effects.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    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.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 51
  3. Negative: 1 out of 51
  1. LiridonH.
    10
    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".… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. infernokiller
    10
    This is the best movie ever. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. If you have not seen this u need to! this is a scariest move as well
    • 0 of 2 users said yes
  3. Riren
    3
    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.… Expand
    • 0 of 3 users said yes

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