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Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Anchored by convincing performances from Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, both of whom elevate their roles above the standard horror-movie caricature, this is an enormously unsettling movie. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: There's nothing remotely new here, but the movie has the taut, queasy feel of an early 70s drive-in shocker: old-fashioned suspense without any guarantee of old-fashioned mercy. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Bertino relies too heavily on occasionally nonsensical terror tricks that every horror buff has seen a million times since John Carpenter's Halloween set the standard for domestic fright-night mayhem. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: As an exercise in controlled mayhem, horror movies don't get much scarier. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: If you're a fan of the genre, The Strangers provides all the shocks and scares you could possibly want. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: [Director] Bertino has the pretensions of an artist and the indelicacy of a hack. He tries to get under our skin with a pile driver. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: At least it's short. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's so gruesomely relentless that the effect is like watching a slo-mo snuff film. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It's an efficiently made, appropriately terrifying film, downright minimalist in approach and all the more horrifying for it. It's so basic it's believable. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It sounds stupid enough, and ultimately is, but the director, Bryan Bertino, stages The Strangers' early scenes with spooky panache. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Chilling feature. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Writer and first-time director Bryan Bertino wastes his taut, tense premise -- two lovers, three villains, one house -- by depending on wearingly familiar tricks. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Unfolding with an almost startling lack of self-awareness, young filmmaker Bryan Bertino's debut is such a careful, straight-faced knockoff of '70s exploitation films it plays like a parody. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Every silence, pause and sudden noise startles -- and the results, frankly, are more frightening than the graphic torture scenes in movies like Hostel and Saw. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Kind of like what The Shining might be if you took out the ESP. And the ghosts. And the chilling atmosphere. So call it The Sucking. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Fans of the 'pitiless/merciless killers' school of horror should get a jolt out of The Strangers, a harrowing real-time tale of an assault on a remote country home. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: No one is getting at anything in The Strangers, except the cheapest, ugliest kind of sadistic titillation. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's intense but not necessarily fun and may disappoint less sophisticated horror fans. However, for die-hard supporters of unsettling peeks into the dark side of human nature, this is a welcome excursion. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie deserves more stars for its bottom-line craft, but all the craft in the world can't redeem its story. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Let's give writer-director Bryan Bertino credit. He knows how to frame a shot to make characters seem vulnerable. Now for his next trick, he just needs to turn his talents toward something that isn't repulsive. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: With no plot to speak of, no character development whatsoever, no theme and precious little intrigue, what we have here is simply a pileup of effects. And not especially special effects. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Bertino's cat-and-mouse chase is genuinely terrifying. If the director learns how to make what happens once the mouse is caught just as interesting, he'll have a long, prosperous future ahead of him. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: This suspense film by first-time writer-director Bryan Bertino initially squeezes some surprisingly effective scares out of familiar elements. Sadly, the scenario quickly becomes attenuated and unbelievable. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The Strangers has a couple of scares, but it's not anywhere near as frightening as advertised. The creepy folks of the title are more fumbling than fiendish. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: It's all efficiently nerve-jangling, with Tyler and Speedman credibly registering every hue of panic. Read more
Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: An old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a wall, a nearby record player scratching an oldie, a CB radio in the garage, a creaky swing set in the backyard. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish. Read more