The Roommate 2011

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Danish director Christian E. Christiansen does nothing remotely chilling iwth the visuals or the tempo, so the movie leans heavily on John Frizzell's strident string-heavy score. Even efforts at playing the titillation game with his stars feel meek and PG Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: We could not possibly care less. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: If ever a thriller were to inspire a collective "eh," it's got to be "The Roommate." It's not a good movie, by any means, but it's also not bad enough to have fun hating on. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: It's the stuff of a late-night channel-surfer's dreams. The film's sure-to-be-brief theatrical release is a mere stopover on the way to basic-cable eternity. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's a lazy, bloodless, pointless, boring piece of work, lacking even the conviction to deliver a little cheap exploitation. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: "The Roommate'' is dumb about psychology and suspense. Read more

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: With few scares and minimal characterization, The Roommate is really just a far-below-par thriller that desperately wishes it were a different movie -- a longing it shares with the audience. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Innocent young college girl moves in with psycho roommate. You know the rest. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Without tension or suspense, the film is too gloomy and chaste to be a naughty exploitation picture but also too brainless to work as anything more real. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, L.A. Weekly: It's exactly what you thought it would be: A plagiarized, campus-set Single White Female pitched to teens, The Roommate traces over scenes from Barbet Schroeder's sleepover classic with no notable improvement. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Its most fiendish moment comes when one girl yanks out another's bellybutton ring. Not that -- anything but that! Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The Roommate - the umpteenth uncredited remake of 1992's Single White Female - sucks bad, real bad. Read more

Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: Unfortunately, The Roommate is too timid to make an impression of any kind. Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: The movie is exploitative schlock; both its
 stars -- particularly Meester, who has something, although she herself has 
perhaps not yet figured out what -- deserve better.
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Time Out: This is trash of the tamest variety which elicits a few mild shudders at most. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: Won't evict "Single White Female" from its top-floor residence among psycho-roomie cinema. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Kelly and Meester hit their marks and look pretty doing it, while supporting players Cam Gigandet, Billy Zane and Aly Michalka fade into the background so blandly that viewers will never remember they were there. Read more