The Darkest Hour 2011

Joel Brown, Boston Globe: "Darkest Hour'' doesn't have even as much character as those Discover commercials. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Not since Mark Wahlberg trembled in fear beside a menacing houseplant in The Happening has a film tried to provoke terror with such an unlikely object of menace. Read more

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: It's clear from early on that these characters are as indistinct and lazily rendered as the floating blobs chasing them. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: An alien invasion flick that evidently expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: What's the point of going all the way to Moscow if the shots you come back with end up looking like cheap green-screen process work? Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: If these dimwits represent the hope of humanity, bring on the alien overlords. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: There's literally nothing here that works: the SFX are limp, the acting is dire and director Chris Gorak seems to be fighting a losing battle with the concept of narrative logic. Read more