Lost Souls is a plodding and obvious movie, undermining its own tension as surely as The Exorcist builds it.

| Sep 28, 2023

...a progressively tiresome thriller...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2023

Well-plotted, with a first-class group of actors and sure-handed direction by Steven Spielberg's favorite cinema-tographer, Janusz Kaminski.

| Mar 29, 2019

Teenage horror fans can do much better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2011

The anticlimactic, is-that-all-there-is ending winds everything up not with a bang, but a whimper.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Mood alone cannot energize this slow, simplistic, and anticlimactic Exorcist pretender.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 14, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2007

Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving -- visually striking set pieces set loose in a void.

| Jan 6, 2007

An absolutely terrible movie, sloppily constructed and poorly executed.

| Original Score: F | Jul 24, 2006

The tedious storytelling sucks the life and soul out of the characters far more effectively than Satan ever manages.

| Jun 24, 2006

Ryder seems serious enough, but there's no real evidence that she's even trying to act...

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 27, 2005

The result is well-photographed but frighteningly incoherent.

| Original Score: C+ | May 22, 2003

There's a good reason this lackluster fright-fest sat on the shelf for two years. It's nothing more than a tired Winona Ryder vehicle taking advantage of the topic du jour -- demonic possession.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2003

Even a cameo by John Hurt fails to make this film worthwhile.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Just wall-to-wall goofiness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

An engaging, stylish and satisfying film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

It's still a little smarter and a little more interesting than most entries in the antichrist genre and packs more than one satisfying scare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2002

[An] unholy mess of a flick.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Does anyone really think they have an original satanic thriller up their sleeve?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 10, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 30, 2001