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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Reportedly, several endings were filmed; perhaps some of them make more sense than this one. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Fairly diverting until it starts becoming ridiculous. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This stupidly contrived thriller is all the more disappointing if you admire previous work by Berry and director James Foley. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger, a perfectly off-putting thriller. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: For those who are interested in Berry as both an actress and screen presence, this is one of the most satisfying films she has ever made. It capitalizes on her strengths and she owns the picture, from start to finish. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Perfect Stranger is one of those movies in which nothing and no one turns out the way they originally seemed. And, maddeningly, that's true of the movie itself, as well. Read more
Annemarie Moody, Arizona Republic: All the hip technology, including e-mail hacking, tiny portable USB devices and fake IM accounts, is supposed to make us feel disoriented by the modern lack of face-to-face communication, but it feels played out and overexplained. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A laughably overheated thriller from the once promising James Foley. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: By the time everything falls into place, it doesn't much matter. The best thrillers don't just show up for the closing credits, they are involving all along the way. That's where Perfect Stranger goes imperfectly wrong. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Perfect Stranger isn't great art by any stretch, or even art by any stretch, but it is perfectly functional low-to-middlebrow entertainment -- a B movie at ease inside its own gaudy skin. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A great thriller should be the model of simplicity. Perfect Stranger, like so many other thrillers nowadays, is often complicated just for the sake of being complicated. This more-is-better approach isn't more, and it isn't better. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Perfect Stranger, the new thriller starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, is far from perfect and, lame as it is, not quite lousy enough to pan with joy. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Considering the twirliness of the story, this is a fairly straightforward film that knows where it's going and how to get there. And there's much to be admired in that. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Perfect Stranger is spam -- not only commercially generated, but irritating in the faith that buyers will be as dumb about Internet-based thrillers as the sellers are. My advice is to delete without opening. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Everyone behaves like characters who are motivated not by emotion or logic, but the to and fro of a remote control or joystick. Read more
Carla Meyer, Dallas Morning News: A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: As a thriller, it's so by-the-numbers that it's hardly worth keeping count. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: People with access to vital information just show up when the movie needs them, then vanish again. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The murder clues are trotted out in dishonestly protracted fashion by screenwriter Todd Komarnicki, who plants red herrings as malodorous as a fish market at 5 in the morning. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Layered with improbable plot twists and hypocritical commentary, the movie is lurid and outdated when it wants to be hip and provocative. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: People peek through windows, hack into computers and sneak into apartments without the slightest hesitation. We're guilty of voyeurism, too, since the primary pleasure to be found is in seeing three confident leads play off each other. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nothing can quite top the climax, which arbitrarily assigns a culprit in a way that makes you question almost every single thing that's transpired up to that point. And no, that's not a good thing in this case. Read more
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A cheesy affair that casts so many baited lures that they tangle each other and don't hook you. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: What would happen if a late-night, D-grade direct-to-cable thriller excised all of the raunchily enjoyable elements and managed to attract an A-list cast? The result might be shockingly like Perfect Stranger. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: There's a vast, possibly bottomless pit reserved for thrillers that are neither good nor bad enough to be truly entertaining, and James Foley's Perfect Stranger tumbles right into it. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: Just when you thought The Reaping was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes Perfect Stranger. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: One of those formulaic thrillers loaded with a whole lot more plot than common sense. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Its shiny plastic glamour serves to endorse the very phoniness it ought to be warning us about. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The movie would perhaps like to say something serious about the ease with which modern communications allows us to be multiple personalities, but that effort is lost in ineptitude. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: The movie shows that the only thing worse than a generically screwy thriller is one with a selective narrator -- and one that doesn't give viewers a fair chance to play along. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Some films are marred by absurd endings; this dire journo-thriller is like one big mar. Read more
John Anderson, Variety: Pink is the new black, 50 is the new 30 and, at the movies, confusion is the new suspense. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Despite the presence of the luminous Berry, Perfect Stranger is really just another thriller, utterly disposable, in town for a few desultory weeks until it heads off to a mild afterlife on DVD and then richly deserved oblivion. Read more