Odd Thomas 2013

Sara Stewart, New York Post: What worked so well for Anton Yelchin as the protagonist of "Fright Night" - scrappy, clever young guy fights supernatural evil - falls flat in this adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel from director Stephen Sommers. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Odd Thomas has high-speed chases, explosions, narrow escapes and masses of special effects-none special enough, I'm afraid, to save it from mediocrity. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: The books' juggling of tricky tonal and narrative devices translates into a screen result less clever than arbitrary and silly. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A protective layer of irony ensures that the movie's commingling of the mundane and the bizarre never registers as camp. Read more

Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Odd Thomas is an engagingly lightweight and occasionally visually inventive film that should appeal to Koontz fans and anyone else open to his whimsical approach to horror. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Cast and crew generate an enjoyable sense of community in Odd's hometown. Odd Thomas just doesn't leave us with much desire to return there. Read more

Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times: In adapting Dean Koontz's series, Sommers nails the hero but bungles the world-building. Odd predicts mythological violence, but the climactic wreckage we see on screen is too real for what should play out as weightless entertainment. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This expensive-looking indie, adapted from a supernatural book series by sci-fi author Dean Koontz, tries too hard for a wacky tone, and winds up merely brain-dead. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: At once comic, tragic and goofily romantic, and resting too often on Odd's clarifying narration, this young-adult lark breaches the nonsense barrier with some regularity. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: An endearing, witty romantic dramedy-slash-supernatural-thriller about a small desert town in California beset by demonic apparitions and a satanic cabal of deranged would-be mass murderers. Read more

Bruce Ingram, Chicago Sun-Times: Yep, he's an odd one all right. You're likely to get tired of hearing about it pretty quick, though. Read more

Pete Vonder Haar, Village Voice: Think Gilmore Girls, if there were an episode where Satan possessed Rory. Still, there are signs of life among all the dead. Read more