| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The movie works -- at least marginally.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Vicky Edwards
Entertaining, but it doesn't add enough to the genre to make it truly blessed.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Satanic silliness undermines this gloomy horror picture.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A schlocky thriller that might appeal to less discriminating members of the mall crowd.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Often trite and predictable but grudgingly likable in the end.
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| 40 |
TNT RoughCut
Pop junk, an airport paperback, literally, turned into a mid-budget devil thriller.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Causes one to wish... that movies about the supernatural could make contact with supernatural script doctors.
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| 38 |
USA Today
A cheesy crock of religious mumbo jumbo.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
The movie is somewhat below average. The plot doesn't always hold together.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
A forehead-poundingly bad picture.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Goes straight to hell, and in this case it is its own handbasket.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Mostly ludicrous, but occasionally effective.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The unintentional effect of movies like Bless the Child is that they are enough to make agnostics out of true believers.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
A supernatural soap opera.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Far from the worst film this summer, but it also doesn't rate strong enough to be a future video rental.
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| 12 |
Miami Herald
The whole thing's grotesque as a gargoyle and ugly as sin.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Good vs. Evil For Dummies....and I, for one, dislike being treated like a Dummy.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
Lapses into an exercise in foolishness.
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| 10 |
Variety
Combines the most rudimentary of Catholic-inspired good vs. evil plots with visual effects that would barely pass muster in episodic TV.
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| 4 |
Mr. Showbiz
Dreadful demonic disaster.
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| 0 |
LA Weekly
Director Chuck Russell ("The Mask") and screenwriter Thomas Rickman don't need new agents -- they need backup careers.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
It works not at all.
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
Abysmally stupid drama.
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| 0 |
Village Voice
A callous piece of work that exploits images of children in pain or jeopardy.
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| 0 |
Chicago Reader
Horrendous dialogue and horrific directing dominate this thriller.
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