Lost Souls 2000

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Confusing, flatlined script. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The barely relieved boredom is, apparently, an attempt to contradict David Byrne's contention that only 'Heaven is a place where nothing really happens.' Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving -- visually striking set pieces set loose in a void. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Odd camera angles, artfully dim lighting and showy tracking shots simply don't make up for suspense or intelligence. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Its characters are so colorless and uninvolving that it's hard to take them seriously. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: This tale of ultimate evil is a maddeningly inert drama. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Yet another story about the devil taking over the world, the film starts out strongly, but quickly loses its way in the morass of its own hocus-pocus. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Far from being frightening or brutal or harrowing, as an exorcism thriller ought to be, it's silly, undone by lack of faith in its own subject. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [An] unholy mess of a flick. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: On those occasions when the movie makes sense, the implications are often so idiotic that we wish it didn't. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For a thriller about demonic possession and the birth of the antichrist, it's curiously flat. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Feels like a film student's awkward homage to Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: While it's beautifully shot, it's way too slow. And it isn't one bit scary. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: The tedious storytelling sucks the life and soul out of the characters far more effectively than Satan ever manages. Read more

Lael Loewenstein, Variety: This generically promotable but heavy-handed pic should look forward to a quick and relatively painless transition to the video shelf. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A pretty dreary affair to sit through. It's not even scary. Read more