Metacritic Movie Ratings
Perfect Stranger Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  It is an acceptable enough thriller, neither the worst you've seen nor the opposite.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  The director, as he showed in movies like "After Dark, My Sweet," and "Fear," specializes in conjuring conspiratorial atmospheres in which anxiety and sexual menace hang in the air like a heavy, bitter perfume. Long after you've dismissed the movie's ridiculous, convoluted story, traces of that scent may linger.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Variety

  A disorienting cocktail of illogic and hysteria that requires an 11th-hour soliloquy just to explain what's happened.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  The star wattage quickly dims in this slick-looking but ringingly hollow affair that starts off generically at best before collapsing into a convoluted heap of shrill screen cliches.

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• 25

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  A crappy thriller gussied up with a chrome-plated veneer.

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• 25

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Superficial and lurid, Perfect Stranger is the cinematic equivalent of spam and should, like those trashy messages, be avoided.

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• 0

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger, a perfectly off-putting thriller.

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