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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThere's visceral horror, too, including a grisly image -- a horror-in-miniature involving a fingernail -- that located an open nerve in my jaded ability to endure screen violence.
- 75Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn Levy"Sixth" achieves a rare hushed poetry where Stir, for all its strengths, is more earthbound and familiar.
- 75USA TodayAndy SeilerUSA TodayAndy SeilerThe economical, fast-paced style and creepy mood are reminiscent of "The Twilight Zone."
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA horror movie with a Hitchcockian veneer of the everyday, a story that taps into our fear not only of the paranormal but also of insanity and the secret evil that may lie beneath ordinary lives.
- 70Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThe conventional ghost-appeasement scenario isn't very suspenseful, which may be part of the reason it's so gripping.
- 70Film.comRobert HortonFilm.comRobert HortonThe picture has an appropriately grungy sense of place.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold(Bacon's) most believable, heart-wrenching and charismatic lead performance in many years.
- 63Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanA conventionally violent, do-or-die ending on such an unconventional movie.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanOffers tricky fragmentation without mystery or mood; it's a mosaic of fear that grows less and less unsettling as it comes together.
- 50Baltimore SunAnn HornadayBaltimore SunAnn HornadaySome dazzling in-camera special effects, especially the ingenious idea of filming the story's ghost at a slow speed, six frames per second, giving the being a strange, otherworldly way of moving.