Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Messengers Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyRonnie Scheib

  Though the Pangs prove culturally adaptive on a visual level, they seem completely clueless as to the tonal modalities of Mark Wheaton's admittedly undercooked, all-American script.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  There are a few decent jolts in The Messengers, but every one of them is accompanied by a cheap freak-out on the soundtrack so you know to be decently jolted.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  Like too many horror pictures, The Messengers becomes more boringly prosaic as it goes along, and there's an 11th-hour plot twist so dumb and poorly articulated that it destroys the movie. That's a shame, because shot for shot, the Pangs might be the most terrifying filmmakers alive.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  The Messengers is at once ruthlessly efficient and shamelessly distended.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  A tepid ghost story filled with all the usual things that go bump in the night minus the somewhat crucial element of suspense, this bland effort from Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures is surprisingly devoid of the creepy, claustrophobic atmospherics that haunt the brothers' Asian work.

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