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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: To regard The Mothman Prophecies merely as two hours of your life that you'll never get back is to miss the larger affront it poses. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The film is inert and narratively unintelligible. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Mothman Prophecies is mostly well-cast and acted. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: They set up things that just get dropped completely. So I think it's really terrible. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Once again, we have a well-directed, well-acted film with a negligent screenplay. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A gaudy yet grim science-fiction horror movie of such surpassing silliness, humorless intensity and stylistic overkill that watching it may actually put you in a state of paranoia. Why are these moviemakers persecuting us? Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Little more than an adequate shard of winter-doldrums genre fare. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: This is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: The thriller is like an average episode of The X-Files stretched to two hours, without the humor and with less satisfaction. Read more
Larry Aydlette, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You're better off staying home and watching The X-Files. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Gere gives a good performance in a film that doesn't merit it. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: The mood, look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a T. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Pellington knows, as did the 1940s master of horror Val Lewton, that what you don't see can raise far more goose bumps than what you do. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie's more abstract scare tactics ... are so restrained that viewers may start to yearn for a bogeyman to burst from the closet. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Despite hints that it aspires to be more, The Mothman Prophecies is a by-the-numbers sci-fi thriller. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Mark Pellington's The Mothman Prophecies stretches credulity even while it creeps you out. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: There are certainly strong moments and efficient set pieces here, too, but for all the claims that the film, adapted from a 1975 book by John Keel, is based on real events, Pellington fails to sustain credibility. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Director Mark Pellington hardly lets a moment pass without suggesting some bad vibes creeping onto the edges of the screen, but he's let down by Richard Hatem's script. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: It delivers some chills and sustained unease, but flounders in its quest for Deeper Meaning. Read more