Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
8 |
You may read reviews ofShutter Island complaining that the ending blindsides you. The uncertainty it causes prevents the film from feeling perfect on first viewing. I have a feeling it might improve on second. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
6 |
It is less a film than a puny trampoline — an occasion, though a grim one, for this most fervently movie-mad of American directors to show off his love for the various pulp genres mooshed together by the 2003 Dennis Lehane novel. |
E!
Luke Y. Thompson |
3 |
Dennis Lehane's novel seems to have the potential for a good adaptation, but Scorsese's version isn't it: Sadly, this Shutter bugs. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
9 |
...an ominous, claustrophobic and, at times, confusing endurance test that audiences no doubt will want to take. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
7 |
...an exquisitely crafted potboiler offering up 2¼ hours of thrills, chills and Leonardo DiCaprio freaking out in a nuthouse during a hurricane. |
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker |
5 |
...never gains the traction it needs to succeed as a suspenser and never sufficiently sets a bottom-line "reality" to ground an epistemological inquiry. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
8 |
The climactic scene won't be the only thing that leaves you shattered. Scorsese makes dark magic in this mesmerizing mind-bender. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
7 |
...holds you, but it doesn't grip you. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
3 |
Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself... |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
9 |
...a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie... |
People
Liza Hamm |
8 |
There's much to enjoy here... |
LA Weekly
Nick Pinkerton |
8 |
138 minutes is dangerously epic for a talky thriller, but you forget the time and even whether the plot makes sense--and if you don't notice, it doesn't matter. |
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton |
8 |
138 minutes is dangerously epic for a talky thriller, but you forget the time and even whether the plot makes sense--and if you don't notice, it doesn't matter. |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
9 |
...should be appreciated first as a vivid, waking nightmare. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
5 |
...a pretty terrible movie but I can't just leave it at that. It's the kind of bad movie only very talented people could make, and that gives it a fascination. I watched it in a state of rapt bewilderment. |
Variety
Todd McCarthy |
9 |
...a dark, intense thriller involving insanity, ghastly memories, mind-alteration and violence, all wrapped in a story about the search for a missing patient at an island asylum. |
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