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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Reasonably diverting. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: No matter how average the script, the direction or the company, any movie that stars Freeman is worth two hours and nearly 10 bucks. Read more
Al Brumley, Dallas Morning News: Anyone with any knowledge of police procedure will have to start suspending disbelief in a big way. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Gets tangled in its own web of absurdities. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Impersonal, barely ept. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Good solid entertainment. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: If you tend to really analyze thrillers, and then get bugged when there are gaps in logic, save yourself the aggravation. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: It may be chock-full of psychological elements, but it's neither suspenseful nor thrilling. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Along Came a Spider moves at a taut, well-metered pace, one that allows for scenes of psychological excavation. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: There are popcorn movies, and then there are movies like this one, which, by its conclusion, make you want to toss your empty popcorn bag at the screen. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Freeman, as always, is a still center of dependable calm and intelligence, but Potter registers only as another generic blonde. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Even at half speed, Freeman excels: He knows how to whip out his badge at a crime scene and make it seem as if he had been doing it his whole life. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Sink under the weight of its own preposterousness despite the best efforts of the always-effective Morgan Freeman to stave off disaster. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Man, are you gonna be talking when you come out of this movie! Saying things like 'but why...' and 'if she...' and 'wouldn't he...' and 'how come...' as you try to trace your way back through the twisted logic of the plot. Read more
Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: Mindless. Read more
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today: Like a paperback plucked from a counter at an airport, Spider is an impulse buy of a film, a time killer that will neither tax your brain nor challenge your memory. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Freeman's performance -- one of laserlike perspicacity shining through eyes made narrow by a laconic, been-there-done-that cool -- is the film's ramrod-true spine. Read more