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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: What, I shudder to think, were the projects Hilary Swank turned down in favor of this one? Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Reaping proves that you reap what you sow, and what these particular screenwriters have sown is just another word for manure. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's a highfalutin hodgepodge of biblical mumbo jumbo, more likely to inspire laughter than fear. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: An insult to intelligence and faith alike. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: What could Swank really have done with such a cliche-ridden screenplay, except turn it down? Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Stephen Hopkins directs The Reaping according to the Satanic horror manual, right down to the choral chanting on the soundtrack. The lighting is often too dark to see what's happening, and the editing makes a mess of even the most tolerable scenes. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: [Director Stephen Hopkins] must have decided that horror needn't be technically horrifying, just flashy and programmatic and full of woo-woo choral bits that loudly command our spines to tingle. Stubborn little thing, mine didn't. And neither will yours. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film begins gracefully, judiciously. Sadly, in its final 20 minutes, it throws its admirable caution to the wind. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: From spooky prelude to investigative twaddle to surprise ending and double-surprise coda, it's as if director Stephen Hopkins is following the handbook of Satanic hooey. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: No belief on earth can rescue Swank from a film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon. Read more
Carla Meyer, Dallas Morning News: The cumulative effect is likely to make viewers weary, but not so weary that they can't manage a chuckle or two during the film's cheesed-out final minutes. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Post-Katrina Louisiana and war-torn Africa are little more than special effects generated by life instead of CGI wizards, and the only real curse is on anyone unlucky enough to buy a ticket. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: The Reaping isn't quite bad enough, or even New Testament enough, to qualify as a sign of the impending apocalypse. But by the time it's over, you know you're getting close. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie's pacing feels off and when the explanations do start to come, they feel far-fetched, even for a horror film. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The film succumbs to the plague of cliches -- things suddenly leaping into the frame, screeching sound effects, and a gag that must have been old by the time Moses hit puberty: Look at this freaky stuff! Oh, it's only a dream. Read more
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: An effectively unsettling mix of Southern gothic and Old Testament hugger-mugger. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Upon reflection, it's not difficult to understand why The Reaping languished for so long on the shelves of Warner Brothers before being dumped into distribution. The film, despite attempts at edit-room reparation, is virtually unreleasable. Read more
Paige Wiser, Chicago Sun-Times: Why were they ... ? Did she ... ? Couldn't he have just ... ? Since I have no intention of watching the movie two more times to sort it all out, I'm left disgruntled. It's almost enough to make you lose faith in horror movies. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Notable for its enthusiastic abandonment of any semblance of narrative coherence. Lately, lonely women in Hollywood movies are particularly vulnerable to attacks by multiple montages and random sound effects. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Religious horror will always be with us, but if The Reaping connects, it'll only be because we sinned on the ticket line. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Note to respected actors: If the movie involves dodging swarms of sparrow-sized locusts, tromping about in a creepy, blood-red river or facing down a scary little girl believed to be possessed by Satan, run, don't walk, out of the studio meeting. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: For all its high-minded aspirations, The Reaping really shows its cards in the final reels, with a descent into visual bombast and spiritual chaos that is almost riveting in its silliness. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [Swank's] deft gestures and subtle inflections ring false, thanks to a script that forces her to follow the cliches of the genre, not break free of them. Read more