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75
Kassovitz directs with an unrelenting intensity that helps you to suspend disbelief almost all the way to the credits.
75
In trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory.
70
Delivers genuine scares.
50
For a while there, Mathieu Kassovitz's atmospherically charged direction sucks the viewer into the story's hellish vortex. That is until the film becomes possessed by an increasingly ludicrous beyond-the-grave element from which there is no rational return.
50
Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class.
50
Given her (Halle Berry) biggest part since winning Oscar, she responds with a zeal that's more than the movie deserves.
50
Great cast, great atmosphere, little sense or first-rate suspense.
50
A plot that insults, betrays, and cheats every member of the audience. Stupidity to a degree can sometimes be forgiven. Stupidity to this degree can not and should not.
50
May try to revive the eerie spirit of the Gothic novel, but, unless you're suffering from amnesia yourself, it probably won't surprise or thrill you.
50
Gothika was supposed to provide proof that she (Berry) could carry a film as a leading lady, but it doesn't. That's not entirely her fault, since nobody can fetch a drink of water in a sieve.
