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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   "Although a very handsomely-shot film, 'The Strangers' merely goes through the motions of the horror genre -- and with a bare minimum of effort."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "so well made, so moody and tense, that its emptiness can almost be overlooked - but if you want something a little more than a po-faced thrill ride, best look elsewhere"   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel 2/5 "The Strangers is a deadly dull experience in boredom, strangled by two cinematic stumbling blocks -- one external and one of its own unfortunate making."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D- "Strangers is 80 minutes of screen stillness; a suspense picture powered by directorial incompetence and behavioral idiocy...a pile of tasteless genre garbage."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Abusive and arty as it contemplates abuse and art, The Strangers delivers what you guess it will."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "The Strangers has been saddled with an increasingly uneven sensibility that ultimately dulls the movie's overall impact."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Left me feeling exploited as this vile pretentious thriller never committed itself to being more than a rip-off scare flick."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "An immensely creepy thriller, one that plays fair with the audience, treats its characters with unusual intelligence for the genre, and is all the more effective because the minimalist plot is kept spare and straightforward."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman "An old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a wall, a nearby record player scratching an oldie, a CB radio in the garage, a creaky swing set in the backyard."   Village Voice   Ed Gonzalez B "What it does is deliver more than an hour of sustained, almost unrelenting terror."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "A film to unnerve us enough to either buy some extra deadbolts or kill the next bastard who walks across our lawn."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3/4 "A brutal little thriller with no intentions other than to scare us. And in many instances, it succeeds..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Grinding and suffocating"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D "A grisly, morally disreputable cat-and-mouse exercise that has no point beyond viscerally implicating viewers in the same sadistic game played by the villains."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek A- "The notion, and the threat, of 'family,' once personified, ultimately kills our notlyweds just as, in abstract form, it effectively killed their relationship."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "It's intense but not necessarily fun and may disappoint less sophisticated horror fans. However, for die-hard supporters of unsettling peeks into the dark side of human nature, this is a welcome excursion."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "When the film is this effective, it’s hard to complain."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Spooky horror film has both tension and gore."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 7/10 "An extremely effective claustrophobic horror picture that starts slow but ultimately provides us with plenty of suspense all the way through to its very dark ending."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 1.0/4.0 "How bad is a stalker/killer flick when it's just as lame whether the victims live or die? All suspense and no payoff doesn't look clever, just lazy."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson C+ "The Strangers suffers from lack of originality. I've seen most of this film in other movies, and as a horror fan, I found little that was new or innovative."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C- "..riddled with continuity errors...stupid victim behavior cliches...and inconsistencies...begins with its heroine's 911 call but has no viable way of incorporating that call into its own unfolding logic."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "There's nothing more to it than meets the eye, but Bertino understands the mechanics of suspense and knows how to use them."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "Good thing The Strangers isn't actually scary in the least, because then I might really have to off on a rant about how our entertainment overlords are conspiring with our government to keep us timid and afraid."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "A mediocre scare show that just happened to have one of the best trailers of recent times. At two minutes, The Strangers is terrifying; at eighty-five, it's lackluster."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/4 "As with last year's lean, mean B movie Vacancy, Bryan Bertino's The Strangers is a white-knuckle thriller in which a couple going through relationship difficulties is terrorized by psychos."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 " There are enough flaws on display in "The Strangers" to keep it from ever generating the necessary suspense to prevent viewers from noticing those flaws in the first place."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "After building a jangling sense of terror, Bertino doesn't take it anywhere."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "The movie is derivative as hell, but Bertino shows a good deal of craft -- if not as a writer, then as a director."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "Yes, OK, bad things happen to good people. Consider the message received... about seven movies ago."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D+ "The Strangers gave me a look of disbelief, not the suspension of same, with its jaw dropping flaws."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3.5/5 "While The Strangers certainly doesn't forge any new ground, there's always something to be said for a horror flick that forges old ground colorfully."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "While expoliting our fear of random house invasion, there's no excuse for careless continuity and illogical behavior. Sloppy cinematic details diminish the scare factor."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 8/10 "It wrings ever drop of terror it can out of making us identify with doomed people, and suffering as they suffer. That might be nihilistic, but it's also empathetic."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1