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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1   1.5/5 "Check the return policy for this Orphan."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 2.5/5 "Orphan is not very good. At 90 minutes, it might have been amazing. At nearly two hours, it's tedious."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 8/10 "Balancing well-rendered melodrama with some impressively ballsy genre moves, Orphan is more enjoyable trash than it should be. Call it John and Kate Plus Hate."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens D "Pristine horror fodder had the script maintained some gumption and cheerfully waltzed into a wonderland of sleaze. Instead, it pulls every last punch...a seriously tasteless motion picture, but it's equally as spineless."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "...a persuasive addition to the subgenre of bad-seed-horror films like "The Omen" where a creepy little kid wreaks havoc and murder on the lives of ill-equipped adults."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 5/10 "It's not a bad idea for a horror movie, that the seeming victims are not innocent and their complicated past weighs on their present."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 0/4 "... an angry, bitter and abhorrent display of masochism masquerading around as a legitimate horror film."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "The inclusion of a twist ending that's flat-out jaw-dropping in its audaciousness virtually justifies the entire movie's existence by itself..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "An idiotic anti-adoption movie that skates over thin ice in its silly but vicious story."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "An unnerving psychological thriller with the atmospheric elegance of classics like Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now and Dressed to Kill, masterful in its blends of style and substance, violence and mayhem."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D "This is galling, distasteful trash. I hope the children involved in making it are never permitted to watch it."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "This is a poorly directed wannabe horror film that nevertheless contains more laughs than The Proposal, The Ugly Truth, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Land of the Lost combined. Is that a compliment? Kind of."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "The most committed, downright unpleasant child-from-hell movie imaginable. It makes The Good Son play like Pollyanna."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D "The problem with Orphan isn't merely that the film is idiotic--it's that it's also sleazy, formulaic and repellant."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "It would be harder to find a more dark and joyless thriller on the market than this one."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "a carefully staged deconstruction of our assumptions about horrorshows about preternaturally manipulative and malevolent children"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/5 "Bad Seed-style horror movie is gory and ludicrous."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 4/10 "...more concerned with producing cheap thrills and melodramatic effects than creating any sense of mystery or suspense."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1/5 "I would have laughed if the movie hadn't already sucked my soul from my body"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "Director Jaume Collet-Serra (2005's "House of Wax") serves up a hoot of a trashploitation flick that both follows preset patterns and upends them."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Oh, how I wish it were true that Orphan was a knowing parody, instead of an unwitting one..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "Something isn't quite working in the intended way when the audience's primary reaction for two-plus (!) hours is raucous laughter."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "This is the rare fright flick that is actually grounded in some genuine human emotion."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2/4 "Despite director Jaume Collet-Serra's apt use of running children's laughter for jolt scares, the suspense generated from Esther's early lunatic behavior is of a mild, amusing variety."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager "It just never quite comes together, either as a horror movie or as a goofy campfest."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "An entertaining addition to the evil child genre, simply for its over-the-top chills and nutty plot"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "Competently directed junk, with a script that abandons logic at every turn and dialogue that even some snarky teenage girls seated behind me could predict out loud."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D+ "Just because Orphan is relentlessly bad doesn't mean it's not entertaining."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 3/5 "Directed crisply and with a palpable air of a mid-'70s paranoia thriller."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 6/10 "Schlocky but scary with a weird plot twist that may leave you stunned."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 3/10 "I'll give this much credit to the movie: I absolutely did not see the twist coming. This is because the twist... is unconscionably f-----g stupid"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1