Critic Reviews

After storing up goodwill with its construction, melodrama and lead performance, The Visitor pulls back the curtain on its narrative, and its revelation, put vaguely, is a bummer.

Filmed in and around New Orleans, “The Visitor” isn’t a terrible movie, just a tired one.

As much as it tries to be a mash-up of several genres, it would've been much better had it picked one lane and leaned into it.

There’s not much to grab hold of, here. The Visitor fights a losing battle with over-familiarity, sauntering through horror tropes that predate 24 frames-per-second era celluloid.