| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
A grade-B rumination on what a nasty guy the devil can be.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Possesses the art and craft of a good movie, but not the story.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Predictable, rarely scary.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
Fails to be resonant and, more important, scary.
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| 38 |
USA Today
It's a dated effort.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Full of atmosphere and visuals, it's empty of anything that really matters.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
So filled with illogical twists and ridiculous turns, that eventually it evokes unintentional laughs.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dark and murky, grainy and grim.
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| 33 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A screaming, silly cliche -- and somehow not a bit scary.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
Silly, undone by lack of faith in its own subject.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
While Kaminski understands that movie terror comes in at the eyes, he has little skill for connecting sensation to hearts and minds.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
Preposterous plot, bad acting, and dialogue that provokes more laughs than shivers.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
While it's beautifully shot, it's way too slow.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
His (Kaminski) first feature is so thoroughly awful, it isn't even interesting to look at.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
The most intriguing thing about Lost Souls is how it managed to attract so much talent.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
It's the central story that's lacking.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
It's a loose reassembly of plot points from "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist" that never achieves the emotional intensity of either.
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| 20 |
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
The hallucination sequences are among the pic's creepiest.
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| 20 |
TV Guide
Muddled tale of demonic hijinks and devil worship. It's terrible.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
A dreary tale of supernatural horror.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
A lugubrious sub-"Exorcist" demonic possession film that's absolutely no fun at all.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
A pretty dreary affair to sit through. It's not even scary.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
Can be blamed foremost on its fire-and-brimstone screenwriter, Pierce Gardner.
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| 10 |
Film.com
An almost total waste of time.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
What emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving.
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| 6 |
Mr. Showbiz
The only thing about this movie that will haunt you is its boggling ineptitude.
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| 0 |
Rolling Stone
If the devil made them all do it, he's one dull bastard.
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| 0 |
San Francisco Examiner
Another "Exorcist" bastard -- one with a chick-flick pedigree.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Shamelessly dull.
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