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Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Gellar's thousand-yard stare and somnambulant screen presence have become a serious drag. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: [The Return is] more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her T-shirt. Read more
Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: The Return universally fails to establish any sense of reality, which makes it hard to register when Joanna's world starts falling apart. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Sarah Michelle Gellar battled countless monsters as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her biggest challenge in The Return is to keep from yawning. Read more
Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: A halfway decent editor could easily chop this down to 30 minutes without losing any plot points, but it would still be a tedious slog. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The Return is routine in its depiction of a waifish young woman surrounded by men with predatory qualities. It's sad to see Buffy so disempowered. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Since Adam Sussman's script is as lazy as Asif Kapadia's direction is disjointed, nothing ever makes sense, even after the anticlimatic explanation is revealed. Not even Gellar can work up any interest in Joanna's fate. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A simple ghost story that is, for all its faults, elegantly told, and compellingly acted. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: The Return isn't the worst movie of the year -- or even in the top 10. But it's hard to imagine anyone seeing this movie and thinking they got their money's worth. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Many elements of The Return are quite sophisticated as past and present converge and Joanna's pursuer catches her scent. It's too bad that the plot takes us into irrationality, past the point of no return. Read more