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Bradley Jacobs, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Suspense and scares? Yep. Good performances? Sure. Coherent plot? Um, no.... the tale falls apart with too many logic lapses." (Read the full review...) 107 words, 03/29/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...handsome and atmospheric... director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (who made the cool '28 Weeks Later') plays with classic horror elements of rain, bony monster fingers, vertiginous camera angles..." (Read the full review...) 197 words, 03/30/12 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: MODERATE (cg) "Those interested in seeing it will do better to wait a short while for it to show up on home video rather than chasing it down in a theater." (Read the full review...) 635 words, 03/29/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...satisfyingly shivery... Juan Carlos Fresnadillo uses shadows and directorial sleights of hand to coax forth its slow-building scares rather than just pouring on the usual guts and gore." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 03/30/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "Owen is a good actor stuck in a subpar creepfest that makes no good use of his gravitas and talents.... it's all about empty scares." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 03/30/12 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "Bolstered by astute performances... artful and skillfully told... 'Intruders' trusts in the narrative richness of modulated creep.... The effect is both visceral and thoughtful..." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 03/30/12 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...looks great and has a promising opening, but this atmospheric Spanish psychological thriller is otherwise pretty underwhelming." (Read the full review...) 239 words, 03/30/12 Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "There's something daringly meta (or maybe foolhardy) in the notion of a monster movie being made up by its protagonist as it goes along. 'Intruders' stumbles, however..." (Read the full review...) 251 words, 03/28/12
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "...promises much but delivers relatively little.... We want to let 'Intruders' frighten us, but Hollowface, like the script that spawns him, isn't up to the task." (Read the full review...) 458 words, 03/30/12 Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "The film's point of view - and, the screenwriters' point - meanders.... its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow." (Read the full review...) 375 words, 03/30/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an intelligent, scary little movie. Because it's smart enough to know what's really scary is what's inside us." (Read the full review...) 412 words, 03/30/12 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "If you don't guess the big twist in the first 30 minutes, 'Intruders' is half of a good movie. If you do, it's about a third of a good movie. Either way, there's a whole lot of bad movie to contend with..." (Read the full review...) 291 words, 03/30/12 Roger Moore, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a genuine chiller, zipping us between locations and ratcheting up the fright with judicious use of shadows, extreme close-ups and strident violins in the score." (Read the full review...) 349 words, 03/30/12
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "There's something daringly meta (or maybe foolhardy) in the notion of a monster movie being made up by its protagonist as it goes along. 'Intruders' stumbles, however..." (Read the full review...) 251 words, 03/28/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Some of the intruders in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's dense, dark, but not very scary thriller come not from outside but from within. Or maybe both." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 03/29/12 Scott Tobias, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's technical chops are still apparent, but his attempt to marry a monster movie with high-toned themes of storytelling and memory yields something more generic than it sounds." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 09/14/11 Michelle Orange, Movieline: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...plays too much like an actual, incoherent nightmare to make a good movie... a psychodrama divided against itself.... more interested in the aesthetics of scary movies than the whys, whats and wows." (Read the full review...) 650 words, 03/28/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: FAIR (cg) "...generates some spooky tension and some fresh visuals... it is all the more disappointing when a film that's neither here nor there points us so tantalizingly in the direction of its own lost greatness." (Read the full review...) 534 words, 01/27/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...satisfyingly shivery... Juan Carlos Fresnadillo uses shadows and directorial sleights of hand to coax forth its slow-building scares rather than just pouring on the usual guts and gore." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 03/30/12 Andrew Lapin, NPR: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a strange, uneven film -- not quite horror, not quite psychodrama, not quite 'Babel'-style globetrotter.... Yet it builds a spooky atmosphere by hinting at the real-world nightmares that fuel its beast." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 03/29/12 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "Bolstered by astute performances... artful and skillfully told... 'Intruders' trusts in the narrative richness of modulated creep.... The effect is both visceral and thoughtful..." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 03/30/12
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: FAIR "...a fitfully creepy, overly protracted chiller that plays more like a noncommittal sampler of horror techniques than the vivid nightmare it's clearly aiming for." (Read the full review...) 739 words, 09/15/11 David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...an atmospheric psychological horror hybrid that samples from a lot of genre staples without fully committing to any of them.... it falls apart in trying to steer this nightmare out of dark fantasy into the cold light of logic." (Read the full review...) 787 words, 09/15/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "Bolstered by astute performances... artful and skillfully told... 'Intruders' trusts in the narrative richness of modulated creep.... The effect is both visceral and thoughtful..." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 03/30/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...delivers the atmosphere, is sleek on the surface, but vastly disappointing when it comes to story and plot." (Read the full review...) 610 words, 03/21/12 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...satisfyingly shivery... Juan Carlos Fresnadillo uses shadows and directorial sleights of hand to coax forth its slow-building scares rather than just pouring on the usual guts and gore." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 03/30/12
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