Kairo 2001

Tom Long, Detroit News: By the end of Pulse the world seemed a whole lot creepier place. I'm pretty sure that means it worked. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's best just to give yourself over to its dizzy dreaminess and abstract analysis of the persistent, beckoning throb of the digital underground. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: While it's rattling your nerves, Pulse leaves your brain wanting more. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's not about blood, gore and oozing innards but unsettling creepiness that gets under a moviegoer's skin and makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: You hate to call a ghost movie haunting, but there it is. It sticks around and rattles. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Did I mention that nothing in the two snail-paced hours of Pulse makes close to a shred of sense? Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Whether you take it as horror show or social commentary (or both), this is sublimely terrifying stuff. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Kurosawa places his scary story in the context of intellectual conflict. In the case of Pulse, it's a Cartesian argument, but one with which Kurosawa is careful not to get too bogged down while scaring the bejesus out of his audience. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Even though Kiyoshi Kurosawa's influential Japanese horror film captured a particular mood when he made it in 2000, its late arrival here is likely to elicit jaded yawns. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: It's an apocalyptic ghost story with some eerie images and a surprising turn toward the end, but it bogs down considerably between the good scenes. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: At least half an hour too long at 119 minutes, the movie allows almost everything to happen at least twice. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You may go home and throw out your computer and lock the doors. Read more