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Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Sadly, the movie just doesn't deliver chills. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It isn't until the end that things spin out of control. No one says 'Gimme the bat, Wendy' or 'Here's Johnny!' But they come close. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The Pangs are technically proficient enough to deliver the requisite jolts, but deja vu haunts the film as surely as its pasty-faced, hitch-stepped ghoulies, and it's hard to shake the impression that we've seen this movie before. Read more
Christy Lemire, Arizona Republic: No one says, "Gimme the bat, Wendy," or, "Here's Johnny!" But they come close. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The grown-ups fare worse: They speak . . . very . . . slowly . . . as if to pad the running time out. This may in fact be the most ridiculous performance John Corbett has ever given. Read more
Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: The objective view gives the audience too much room to unravel its schematic plot, which is far less inspired than its creepy visuals. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The Asian-horror-movie moment feels long since passed, both here and abroad. Let our zombies walk or even sprint again! Give our creepy kids back their pupils! Read more
Ty Burr, Dallas Morning News: The MessengersI/i> is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language. Read more
Jim Ridley, L.A. Weekly: Oh boy -- a shocker set against the terrifying backdrop of North Dakota sunflower farming! Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: It's awards season, so we'd like to nominate The Messengers for the yet-to-be-established Tippi Hedren Award for best use of malignant ravens in a motion picture. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Every movie has to have its own sense of logic, horror movies perhaps most of all, but as this story heads towards its climax it begins to contradict what it's told us to believe all along. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nicely photographed but slow-moving, dull and utterly predictable. Read more
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times: With The Messengers, the Pang brothers devise scenes so scary that they stain the imagination and never scrub out. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: There isn't much of a script to work with, and for the occasional pull-out-the-stops moment, it never really builds towards its finish. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Messengers borrows so heavily from The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Grudge, Poltergeist, and others that it has no room left for anything of its own. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: The Messengers isn't a particularly frightening or gory horror movie, but directors Danny and Oxide Pang do have a special talent for torturing the reputations of their actors. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If the ghosts were magnets and the Solomons were paperclips, the two parties couldn't be in a bigger rush to collide. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Many of the images feel over-familiar, and the shocks a mite too forced. Read more