... A masterclass in creeping suburban horror.

| Oct 23, 2023

One of the great anti-온라인카지노추천 movies, alongside Network and The Truman Show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2022

The keynote of the film is O’Rourke’s eerie, ethereally pale face, illuminated by the unearthly light of the haunted 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

One of the most fun haunted house movies ever made.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 3, 2020

[It] raises interesting psychological issues in the context of a baroque ghost story. It's a devastating commentary on the tv-oriented suburban lifestyle. Finally, it demonstrates the power and efficacy of the story told from the child's point of view.

| Apr 27, 2018

The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature.

| Jun 1, 2011

After a quarter-century, Poltergeist remains one of the most popular movies whose reputation rests almost exclusively on behind-the-scenes diversions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2007

A surprisingly yet successfully restrained lesson in how to haunt a house.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2007

Given the talents, Poltergeist is an annoying film because it could have been so much better.

| Sep 25, 2007

Though the shocks are well conveyed, it's the sweetness that lingers, making this the first cute and cuddly entry in the genre.

| Sep 25, 2007

It is consistently redeemed by its creator's dazzling sense of craft.

| Feb 9, 2006

Cut from the Spielberg mold.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2005

Hooper and Spielberg hold our interest by observing the everyday rituals of this family so closely that, since the family seems real, the weird events take on a certain credibility by association.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Poltergeist is like a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare, one that you know that you can always wake up from, and one in which, at the end, no one has permanently been damaged. It's also witty in a fashion that Alfred Hitchcock might have appreciated.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

This is a film that tends to annoy, as if it had been more taut and consistent, it could have been far more exciting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000