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(1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten Page   1   "The only thrills in 'Shutter' come from watching Joshua Jackson in a couple of appealing close-ups."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D+ "A dreary parade of the familiar...unrelentingly boring and needlessly unimaginative."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "It's hardly news that in a scary movie, a white girl wandering through Tokyo is frightened and harassed by some supernatural phenomenon."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "'Shutter' is a movie that's a few years behind its time, maybe even a few decades."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/4 "Ultimately becomes little more than a series of derivative, predictable genre conventions without the necessary skill to back them up."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D "The epitome of gutless, derivative hackwork."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider D- "It gets points for avoiding the graphic gore so common in horror movies nowadays, but Shutter won't make you shudder, let alone scream."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/4 "Asian horror remakes are typically not screened for critics, and Shutter is no exception. The studios know what they have: watered-down, lifeless shells of motion pictures devoid of characters, drama, or anything remotely resembling horror."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "As far as the Asian horror remakes go, I've seen a lot worse... But then again, I've seen a lot better."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Ochiai directs with calm assurance -- no eyeball-rattling quick cuts here -- and Dawson's screenplay preserves most of the original script's strengths and fixes a couple of weaknesses."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh .5/4 "Shutter is a ghost story free of logic and spirit, representative of everything that's wrong with so much of current mainstream studio fare."   Slant Magazine   Rob Humanick 1.5/5 "The main problem is that they spelled the title wrong. The first vowel should be an I."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "What happens is the same as every other J-horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of actual famous people."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten Page   1