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Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: That this doesn't knock one backward out of one's seat is maybe unavoidable. But the goods here are good enough to make one eager for more. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Continues the painful decline of a director who seems more nostalgic for past glories than excited about new ideas. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The Ward, Carpenter's first feature since 2001's Ghosts of Mars, has the logy, diffident attitude of a lost artist. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: The dialogue is never witty, the characters are indistinct, the story is set in 1966 for no relevant reason, and the scares are strictly of the "thing jumps loudly out of the shadows" variety. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The kills aren't terribly suspenseful or dramatically staged and they quickly grow repetitive. Worst of all, they're not particularly scary. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: How depressing to discover that John Carpenter is the man running this operation. His talent for building and sustaining suspense has now warped into flaccid attempt at fright and ogling ringers for Britney Spears and, in Heard's case, Scarlett Johansson. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Basically, this is a ghost story merged with a slasher film and sealed with a Shutter Island twist. But at least Carpenter the spook-meister knows how to goose you. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: An aggressively plain spook story that favors jump moments over sustained tension and winds up falling back on a particularly tired twist. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "The Ward" is bland shock therapy from the guy who reinvented bloody peek-a-boo with the classic "Halloween." Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The shocks mostly consist of figures suddenly rising up in the background, or thunderclaps from a seemingly endless thunderstorm. Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: Carpenter has made his approximation of a cheap, twisty, shock-filled modern horror movie, and he has lost all but faint sighs of his minimalist swagger in the process. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Carpenter's economical but mundane chiller is possessed more by previous ghoul-friend flicks than it is by his better work. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A dull, by-the-numbers psych-ward horror thriller that's sadly a lot closer in quality to "Sucker Punch" than "Shutter Island." Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Feels an awful lot like a low-budget knockoff of Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The horror master's first film in nine years is not the comeback we had wished. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: The title is marketing 101: how to sell a schlocky, throwback genre picture on the back of the past glories of a director who once dealt solely in amped-up, literate and ballsy entertainment... Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Carpenter does what he's always done well here: individualizing shorthand personalities in a group under siege. Read more