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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If you are new to horror that places atmosphere and psychological intensity over gore, Ju-On is a good place to start. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A slightly muddled but still powerful ghost story. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: Ridiculous. Unbelievable. Unintentionally funny. It might as well be a parody of a horror film. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Ju-on has the ability to shoot chills up, down and, well, sideways across a viewer's spine. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Even if you have no idea what the devil is going on in Ju-on, it holds up as a finely crafted little freakout movie. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: What follows is indeed scary. However, the film's repetitious, episodic structure seems to unnecessarily alleviate the building tension, making it a far less frightening film than it might have been. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The fragmented tale is a tangled mess, and the actors have no characterizations to play, apart from shrieking cowardice. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Creepy, and if you like your horror eerie but not sopped in blood, Ju-On fits the bill. It is also 15 minutes too long. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: One of the freakiest, most unsettling movies to come out of Japan in the past few years. Read more
Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly: Occasionally scary, never coherent Ring wannabe. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Its shapelessness and the cultural differences in acting style will keep this version filed under 'cult oddity.' Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: The viewer isn't drawn into a sustained suspense, but is merely subjected to a series of more or less foreseeable shocks. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: While the film wouldn't go on my list of horror classics -- the acting is often stagey, the effects are cheesy, and one particular groaning floorboard sound effect is drastically overused -- it is an intriguing addition to the field. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Shimizu is obviously impatient with dull exposition and wants us to get straight to the good scary stuff. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: A wannabe scarefest that hides its lack of originality beneath a deliberately discombobulating structure. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Performs the ratchet-release- repeat trick with such metronomic efficiency that it gathers the force of a hallucinatory incantation. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's creepy, all right. It's just that how it goes about creeping you out is sometimes just plain cheesy. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's much harder on you than mere fright: It's... creepy. Read more