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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Soon enough Gothika takes a familiar turn. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: If you try hard enough, you might be able to forget that the story doesn't make a lot of sense or provide adequate thrills, although it tries to scare you a couple of times in the cheapest possible way. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... Just too outrageous for me to recommend. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A movie that invariably chooses style over substance and logic. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Plays out on screen as a series of crazy chases and lady-in-distress cliches, interspersed with wildly illogical plot twists-all caught by a nervous camera whirling like drunken paparazzi. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It is a thoroughly synthetic confection, compounded of cliches drawn from a half-dozen genres and subgenres that for a while might almost persuade its audience, as it apparently convinced its makers, that it is something more. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A series of cheap, ineffective scares that would have felt more at home as a mid-'70s TV Movie of the Week starring, say, Kate Jackson, Doug McClure and maybe Dennis Weaver in the Dutton role. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A desperate frenzy of cheap thrills. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: How anyone in the cast manages to keep a straight face is one of the film's innumerable mysteries. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film has suspense and enough well-done jolts to satisfy the folks who go to movies for those sorts of things, but the more the story wades into the supernatural, the sillier it gets. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Stumbles in so many spots that it's even difficult to champion a claim for Berry being the best thing about it. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: This overripe grade-C reconstitution of a grade-B scary thriller hauls out thunderstorms, blood, the ghosts of butchered girls, nightmares, and the usual head trips. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A parade of cheap scare tactics. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Lapses into a comatose variant on The Ring, The Eye and all those other movies about troubled spirits seeking vengeance on earthly wrongdoers. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: French actor-filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz has misdirected his first American production so clumsily you wonder if the script got lost in translation. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Movies like this need to be locked up, and the keys that accomplish that need to be firmly thrown away. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: No scene goes underplayed, no performance (save one, from Robert Downey Jr.) lacks volume, no horror cliche is forgotten. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A mystery wrapped in an enigma -- an enigma that isn't nearly as clever as the screenwriter seems to think it is. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's nothing worse than watching an involving motion picture collapse into rubble before your eyes, and that's exactly what happens here. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: In trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Constantly bouncing from derivative to ridiculous and back to derivative again, Gothika will be tolerable for undiscriminating horror fans but should be shunned by everybody else. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The horror-thriller Gothika gets an A for presentation, a C+ for story and an F for dialogue. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Exercise in mediocrity. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's a film about the mind that is totally bone-headed, frequently making serious lapses of logic. Read more
David Ng, Village Voice: All horror tropes, please report for duty. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Propelled by too many whoppers to create a believable, and therefore legitimately terrifying, universe. Read more