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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 63% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Disturbia goes through the Hitchcockian motions with great skill and good humour - but among the many pleasures it has to offer its viewers, there are few real surprises."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel "'Disturbia' is a tight, suspenseful, well-acted thriller."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B+ "With a new gore fest being released on a near-weekly basis these days, it's nice to see a thriller come down the pike that gets under your skin the old-fashioned way: without showing you much of anything."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark C- "Was Freddy Krueger on vacation? Michael Myers not taking calls? Part of the supposed "fun" of Disturbia is guessing if Turner is a menace or just misunderstood. With Morse in the role, the work has already been done for the viewer."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf "Teetering between weirdly mesmerizing and inexplicably clumsy, D.J. Caruso's film offers a worthy investigation of voyeurism, as it pervades current popular culture in the form of reality TV and user-generated internet videos."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C "It never manages to be disturbing in an intelligent psychological sense; it opts instead for B-film clichéd shocks."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "John Hughes meets Alfred Hitchcock meets the 21st century in Disturbia, an adeptly crafted if not terribly original horror-thriller."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C+ "If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, and if he wanted to remake one of his own films for an MTV audience ... well, he still wouldn't make Disturbia."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Though not without its weak points, when the film works, it really delivers."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 2/4 "It's neither horror, nor thriller, just a teen melodrama set to a thriller backdrop that I could take or leave..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 2.5/4 "Suitably giddy with its horror-movie platitudes aimed at mocking the facade of suburban hysteria...this thriller thrives with the right amount of scrappy charm and intrigue."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C+ "Until the final reels it's actually a fairly nifty little thriller...Unfortunately, it goes awry in the last act."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A suspense thriller that switches gears far too many times mixing humor and horror."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "The filmmakers' belief that modern audiences will only respond to noisy, inarticulate endings dooms this movie to a last act that devalues, rather than elevates, it."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "If Disturbia is remembered ten years from now, it probably won't be because of its standing as a superior thriller, but rather as a dead-on portrait of the current teenage generation's obsession with media and media technology."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 "One of the big sleepers of the year."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 6/10 "...a decent thriller that follows the genre pretty closely, although I wish it hadn't concluded in such an obvious manner."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Disturbia features an extremely likable protagonist in Shia LaBeouf..."   Light Views   John Larsen 2.5/5 "An baleis stin akri ta almata tis plokis kai tis trypoyles poy kseprobaloyn deila edo ki ekei, leitoyrgei mia hara san kalogyalismeno efibiko thriler, poy toylahiston kanei tin prospatheia gia na se koroidepsei poylontas hip moyri, se antithesi me alla po"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.5/5 "Get some friends and some popcorn and settle in for a fun diversion that manages to defeat its few glaring weaknesses with real style."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "Okay, so DreamWorks has remade Rear Window with teens, but could it actually be good? Welcome back to the edge of your seat."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "as an homage to old-fashioned suspense films, you could do a lot worse"   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 2.5/4 "Director D.J. Caruso's teen-friendly spin on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window does so many things right that it's a shame to see it sink into horror-movie cliches."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "Works well enough -- not enough to ignore the intellectual robbery, but enough to be a derivative but fun little thriller."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C+ "With the burden of inevitable comparisons to Hitchcock's masterpiece upon it, Disturbia carves out its own modest spot as a decent thriller until caving in to the demand for a big finish."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Rear Window redone for a more paranoid age, an age that embraces its paranoia as The New Normal, and not something to be disturbiaed about at all."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "A smart, efficient little thriller that wears its heredity proudly."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "Obviously, nothing is going to compare to Rear Window, but Disturbia is nevertheless a neat, well-made little thriller that's worth checking out."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Crisp performances, a creepy bad guy, absorbing plot twists, capable direction, and a script that has some telling points to make about the way we saturate ourselves with media make this thriller, like Kale's neighbors, very watchable."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "Disturbia's reworking of Rear Window for the YouTube generation is pretty nifty, drenching its tale of paranoid surveillance in the type of modern techno-gadgetry that's helped transform privacy from a right into a luxury."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "Even though the story goes bonkers at the end, this teen thriller keeps us entertained--and on the edge of our seats."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "This is a worthy successor to 'Rear Window.'"   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "Disturbia is a decent entry in the killer thriller genre that will appeal to teens and beyond."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "Towards the end, Disturbia does unravel into something not nearly as smart but that doesn't stop the first two acts from being a slick little observation on the multiple levels of reality that surround us today."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 2.5/5 "Slickly shot, generally well-acted, and entirely, predictably conventional from stem to stern."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg B "That dynamic of alienated teens versus the icily assured adult... brings a defining edge to the otherwise effectively executed but familiar thriller."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "Would sag without LaBeouf, carrying his first movie and making credible connections with each co-star."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 7/10 "Tense and terrifying, the mystery morphs into a violent psycho-slasher-thriller."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 6/10 "The parts of the film that work...are surprisingly due mostly to the presence of Shia LaBeouf."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/4 "By and large, the characters in Disturbia do all the dumb, reckless things we've come to expect -- and rightly mock -- in cheesy suspense flicks."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight Read review   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel  (1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 63% Fresh Page   1