The Skulls 2000

Tom Long, Detroit News: It's hard to get outraged about a movie this bad. Read more

Kendall Morgan, Dallas Morning News: The film drags in the middle, ends with an anticlimax and requires a fair amount of suspension of disbelief throughout. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Skulls is shot and edited with enough verve to make you forget what a load of junk it is. Read more

Robin Rauzi, Los Angeles Times: As a breakout role for WB star Jackson, The Skulls doesn't fare as well. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: In an otherwise boneheaded hour and a half of intrigue and silliness, The Skulls does offer one of the more memorable lines of dialogue in recent movies. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Like guano in a bat cave, the implausibilities pile up until the audience can justify its time and expense only by laughing at the screen. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: The Skulls is less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The writing is so bad that it's impossible not to laugh out loud at scenes intended to be scary or serious. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The contrivances pile up more quickly than snowfall in a Buffalo winter, and the ending is so lame that it provoked guffaws from theater-goers attending the screening along with me. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's so ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The Skulls is such a generic, automatic-pilot movie -- seemingly stitched together out of disconnected outtakes from the USA Network archive. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Don't expect much brainpower in The Skulls. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: The movie's unintentionally played like a comedy all the way. Read more

Godfrey Cheshire, Variety: A silly, hackneyed college suspenser put across with all the contrived banality of a bad '70s TV movie. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The preview audience chatted happily all the way through the movie, indicating its destiny as a perennial rental favorite for frat-house living rooms across the U.S.A. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: This movie never really gets off the ground. Read more