Critic Reviews
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's scary. It's well-acted. It's filmed with a degree of flash and elegance.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
A moderately diverting thriller that builds suspense and entertains effectively... strongest selling point is Charlize Theron.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Chilly, muted and refreshingly free of cheap shocks, this stylish psychological horror tale is greatly enhanced by subtle (acting) performances.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Nothing but mood... it simply has too few surprises to justify its indulgent atmosphere of malignant revelation.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Allen Daviau's cinematography is so striking that the movie would probably play better with the sound off.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Could have been written by a computer programmed to cannibalize previous sci-fi films.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Depp moves through the film suavely and imperturbably, never letting the particulars bog him down.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
Far from unwatchable. It's not a good movie but at least, on its own schlocky terms, the story makes sense (which is a lot more than you can say for "The Sixth Sense").
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| 50 |
Variety
Aggressively stylish but dramatically flaccid.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
The finished product is as predictably dull as a newborn's soft spot.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Langorous and oddly detached... a mess.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
This hypersleek film is surprisingly lax for its first half... The ending is dumb.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Slow, arty thriller.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
(Theron) and Depp give lazy, almost irrelevant performances... resolutely unmoving.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
Stinks from the Earth to the moon.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
Houston, we have a problem. It's called The Astronaut's Wife and it's an utterly predictable rip-off of classic '60s and '70s exercises in paranoia, from "Rosemary's Baby" to "The Parallax View."
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| 20 |
Film.com
One of the least endurable films of 1999.
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