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The Uninvited Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Emily Browning's face helps The Uninvited work so well...She makes you fear for her, and that's half the battle. Yet she's so fresh she's ready for a Jane Austen role.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Don't be too quick to turn down The Uninvited. A stylish horror thriller in the vein of "The Ring," it's well-acted, frightening and handsomely produced

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  The main problem with The Uninvited lies in its refusal to decide just what movie it wants to be a commercial for. It certainly doesn't have much in common with "A Tale of Two Sisters," the creepy Korean horror film of which it is supposedly a remake.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  The film is still cheesy rather than deliciously scary. It never really generates sustained suspense.

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  Weak even by the standard of uninspired recent Asian-horror remakes, The Uninvited is more likely to induce snickers and yawns than shudders and yelps.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  The plot borrows as freely from Hitchcock and Henry James as from the Bard of Avon, and doesn't make scrupulous sense, though I'd have to see the film again, which I won't do, to make sure it doesn't cheat.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  Without dwelling on the limited abilities of novice British filmmakers Tom and Charles Guard (a.k.a. the Guard Brothers) -- who seem to have divvied up duties here by having one sibling focus exclusively on close-up shots of doorknobs and the other oversee everything else -- the movie's fatal flaw is the undeveloped relationship between the two sisters.

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• 16

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms.

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