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Susan Stark, Detroit News: The trippy, highly mannered, widely referential imagery is certainly its strongest selling point, despite wonderfully grounding (and, on the rides, bizarre) work by Lopez. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: This is one beautifully surreal and unsettling thriller, with astounding visuals that will lurk in the crawlspaces of your brain after you've left the theater. Read more
Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News: Often- spectacular visuals that recall the work of the creepily eccentric British animation team the Brothers Quay. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: As the movie pops in and out of distinct scenarios, The Cell feels like a new video game. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The major problem is that The Cell continuously echoes The Silence of the Lambs, only minus the intricate character interplay, Jonathan Demme's direction and the taut storyline. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: All torture, all the time, all photographed (by Paul Laufer) and production designed (by Tom Foden) as if it were a TV spot for Chanel. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: You can question the worthiness of [the filmmakers'] subject and vision, but you can't really argue with the way they executed it. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Had Tarsem stuck a Chanel bag or bottle of Calvin Klein perfume into the picture, he'd have ruined nothing. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Cell is remarkably well made, which makes it all the more alarming and disturbing. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Cell becomes the first serial killer feature in a long time to take the genre in a new direction. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One of the best films of the year. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: But for all the opulence of its visual display, this movie has no vision. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: There is an emotional vacuum at the center of this picture. Read more
Nick Funnell, Time Out: Lopez is hard to take as the empathetic psychologist who uses a synaptic transfer machine to penetrate the comatose killer's tortured psyche in hopes of finding his latest victim. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie is riveting in its low way. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: An original and stylish vision of insanity. Read more