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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 5% Rotten Page   1   D "What starts out as a promising take on a very serious issue is minced into another standard Hollywood offering."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "Seek ends with a whimper and not a bang, but at least it finally ends; sadly, this turns out to be the highlight of the experience."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Little Trauma Girl -- her already wide eyes increasingly encased in dark shadows -- now faces life in a humungous scary house."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "As for DeNiro, I'd rather seem him do another commercial than watch him waste both his time and mine on material that Steven Seagal would reject."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1/4 "One can practically imagine the blank stares and shaking heads of viewers left in disbelief here."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "Though it's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, Hide and Seek does manage to hold the viewers interest throughout..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair "... ultimately nothing more than a derivative slasher film"   Portland Tribune   Dawn Taylor 2/4 "An absorbing mystery-thriller for its first hour ... until it races off the tracks toward a dumb, albeit predictable, twist ending."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman .5/4 "An elaborate equation consisting entirely of bad horror tropes and trashy psychological symbolism."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C "An ordinary, mildly suspenseful, eventually preposterous thriller that warrants no more attention or thought than the time it takes to watch it, if that."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "The movie turns out to be such an idiotic, bald-faced cheat that the skillful build-up almost makes it worse."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2.5/4 "No es lo suficientemente buena para sorprendernos y, en consecuencia, nos manipula."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 1.5/4 "“Come out, come out, wherever you are” sounds hauntingly inviting. Still, one should take the contrary view and remain hidden from this perfunctory peek-a-boo picture"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "It may be an efficient horror exercise, but not an exercise you'll much enjoy participating in."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "With a less than stirring performance by Robert De Niro, this one will leave seasoned psychodrama fans underwhelmed."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1/4 "Movies about the psychological abuse of a child can be powerful when the subject matter is handled in a serious, sensitive manner. But when it is employed as a plot device to enable a surprise revelation, it becomes offensive."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Right up until the last 15 minutes, Hide and Seek is an efficient, effective thriller"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/4 "De Niro is slumming and he knows it."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3/10 "[An] easily forgotten entry in the oh!-bet-you- didn't-see-that- coming sweepstakes."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "You really gotta deliver when you build things up through such an elongated set-up, and in the case of this film, it just didn't come through in the end."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 2.0/4.0 "... if you want to see the next big thing in thrillers, little Dakota Fanning may be it, but the rest is pure straight-to-DVD."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1.5/5 "Hide and Seek is a stellar example of the fact that the best acting in the universe cannot help a poor script - or poor direction."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "As expected, the most fun thing in the film is Dakota’s Mexican Staring Frog performance."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest D+ "...its surprise twist is more annoying than frightening."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "Once upon a time, horror pictures like this one played urban grind houses and starred the B-movie likes of Wings Hauser. The gloss of A-list casting and slicked-up production values doesn't necessarily serve them well."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "All the while, it's slowly grabbing a rubber chicken off the table behind it, getting ready to suddenly stick the tired old gag in your face right when it has your attention."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D+ "Hide and Seek goes off the rails when the secret is brought into the light because it feels like a cheap gimmick, and not an original one at that..."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[M]akes you wonder who has pictures of Robert De Niro doing what, and does that mean we’re gonna get one of these movies every year from now on."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 0/4 "The film grows more comic as it's supposed to be scary."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina B- "A slow but steady-paced thriller"   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow D "A lame showcase for DeNiro’s monotonous blankness and the hysterics of Fanning."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "Qualquer um que queira assista a O Amigo Oculto duas vezes vai perceber a falta de lógica do roteiro e... Ah. Entendi. Não há este risco."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "Besides a nice sense of visual style, there's nothing to this creepy-child thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D+ "...wait until it is available for DVD rental and spend the money you saved to order a pizza."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/5 "This barely even qualifies as a movie. It's an easily digested piece of commercial product, not unlike a loaf of bread or those pantyhose that come in an egg."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg C- "There isn't much of a story holding up the plot, just a few clever ideas that are at best slickly executed set pieces and at worst empty scares."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Through its first two-thirds, at least, Hide and Seek does a good enough job of piquing our curiosity that the movie's ultimate dumbness is more than a minor insult."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 ""Trauma causes pain" - but what about the intense psychobabble in this horror-thriller?"   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 2/4 "Extremely derivative, sure, but prior to its last half-hour, it's also sort of amusing as a genre "Where's Waldo?"."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 5/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel  (1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 5% Rotten Page   1