Doctor Sleep 2002

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An occasionally engaging but more often gruesome British thriller. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... one of the best thrillers I've seen probably since The Ring. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The film weaves together a few genre threads only to work them into an impenetrable knot. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A cheaply made piece of 'psychological' occult schlock. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: As in many movies of this sort, people behave stupidly, but director Nick Willing keeps things popping. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: It accrues a certain fusty British charm, along with the requisite (and, for this reviewer, most satisfying) amounts of satanic symbolism, creepy mute children and abandoned gothic churches. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: It's nowhere near innovative, but it scares you as you rarely get scared in movies these days. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Quirky and quiet, Close Your Eyes is not your usual horror film. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: May be the worst-directed movie exported by England in this young century. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Hypnosis in the movies has always been synonymous with hocus pocus, and the tradition continues in this flashy, mildly tingly British thriller. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: An enjoyable throwback to the occult psychological horror-thrillers of the late 1970s. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The somnolent cast can't keep the faith. Read more