18
Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe kind of movie where you walk in, watch the first 10 minutes, know exactly where it's going, and hope devoutly that you're wrong.
- 38The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey[Lange] does give the movie the only excitement it possesses -- the frisson of a hideous thrill -- but it's still an excruciating embarrassment.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliHush has three very simple problems: it's incredibly dumb, it's incredibly boring, and it's incredibly predictable (at least up to the stupefying ending).
- 25San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSan Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinLange seems at a loss to know how to convey Martha's malevolence -- and writer-director Jonathan Darby offers almost no guidance.
- 25San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserHush, which is an absurdly bad mixture of "Rosemary's Baby" and any Bette Davis movie from the 1960s, seems to be a classic case of a grasping mother trying to possess her beloved son.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovDarby and co-screenwriter Michael Cristofer ("Breaking Up") telegraph every available bit of plot seemingly hours before it's necessary, resulting in a tawdry, boring mish-mash of genre clichés and arched eyebrows.
- 20Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesHush is a would-be suspense film without a single major plot twist that isn't ham-handed. [9 Mar 1998, pg.F4]
- 16Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWhen you watch this failed horror thriller -- which has been under studio doctors' care for some two years, undergoing futile title changes and reshoots -- there's no respite from the odor of flop sweat stinking up the screen.
- 10Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe writing and directing of Jonathan Darby, a British TV veteran and Hollywood executive, make the proceedings neither believable nor compelling, so what might have been another "Rosemary's Baby" isn't even a halfway decent genre exercise.
- 0The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe movie... hasn't the foggiest notion whether it's a soap opera or a horror film, and wanders around in a generic fog.