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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: This crackpot thriller from the usually competent Jim Sheridan leaves only one mystery unsolved: what on earth was he thinking? Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This suburban gothic is a logy, convoluted mess. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: There are probably some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories that would explain why Dream House is such a ruined pile of nonsense. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Despite the talent involved, this is more a snooze than a dream. Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Sheridan can't ever quite get hold of the tone and falls back on a default dreaminess (the little girls play a shaky rendition of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" more than once) that never quite convinces. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The only thing it haunts you with is: What the heck happened to Jim Sheridan? Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Sheridan's pacing is turgid and mournful, which lends the story -- sort of like The Shining crossed with Gothika during a sleepover stop at The Amityville Horror -- an air of ponderousness. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Was the screenplay, credited to David Loucka, this schizophrenic from the beginning? Or was some major tampering/reworking done at some point? Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The premise and the execution hold a lot of promise, but the film's climactic reveal will be incredibly obvious to anyone paying even the slightest amount of attention. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: While Will and Libby struggle to adjust their thinking caps, the viewer already knows, thanks to the tell-all trailer, the reason for much of the confusion. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Daniel Craig does everything to dispel comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining with a finely tuned performance, but the film flattens as it tries to explain his character's psychological state. Read more
Nick Schager, Village Voice: Sheridan's tale soon segues into an unevenly paced whodunit pockmarked with lame CG nightmare sequences and populated by hollow ciphers whose every word and action is less believable than the last. Read more