Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Abandoned Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  Minimally plotted but beautifully atmospheric nightmare.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  After a while, Mr. Cerd exhausts his repertory of spooky effects -- too many dark hallways and illogical, foreboding point-of-view shots -- and you begin to hunger for exposition, always a bad sign in a horror film. Even worse is that, by the time the explanations arrive, you no longer care.

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• 16

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.

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