Nicole Kidman is at her icy best in this psychological thriller, showing the kind of silent inner fear that first brought her attention outside her native Australia in 1989's Dead Calm.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 30, 2024

Few haunted-house sagas from the last half-century beg comparison to such long-established classics as The Uninvited, The Innocents, and The Haunting, but The Others instantly vaulted toward the top of the standings upon its initial release.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2024

Amenábar’s approach makes it unique as a horror film dealing with trauma and repression, but from another point-of-view not usually depicted in horror movies.

| Oct 24, 2023

After coming around to her daughter’s interpretation of events, Grace admits to feeling the presence of “something which is not at rest” — an apt description of the film itself, not to mention anyone watching it for the first time.

| Oct 24, 2023

With its dark old house, its persistent past and its invasive hauntings, Alejandro Amenábar’s fifth feature offers all the trappings of a classic gothic, while turning the screw with a very unusual perspective on these supernatural goings-on.

| Oct 18, 2023

Amenábar has crafted a moody ghost story that, once you know the twist, morphs into a somber character study.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2023

Alejandro Amenábar’s elegant chiller creates more tension from atmosphere alone than most other horror films do from vats full of fake blood.

| Aug 15, 2023

A criticism of Franco's fascist regime masquerading as a classic British ghost story. Anchored by two powerhouse female performances, plus gorgeous production design, creepy set pieces, and a nuanced consideration of hypocrisy, religion and the afterlife

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 11, 2023

One of the best examples of a famous, unexpected twist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 26, 2023

“The Others” joins a short list of such films that range from “Gaslight” to “The Manchurian Candidate.”

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 23, 2022

It’s a pale and fragile flower, a gothic rose in full bloom, and you’d better not see it with people who enjoy picking movies apart. It’s all mood — all shadow and hush and dread.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2022

The Others is a haunting story done right, both in the supernatural and the psychological sense. Kidman's face, often frozen in terror, says it all. A ghostly delight.

| Oct 14, 2021

The performances, writing, production design, cinematography, music, directing -- it's all top-notch. Everything about this movie really works.

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 23, 2020

Alejandro Amenabar delivers a top-notch suspense piece that will leave you uneasy for some time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2020

With two superb qualities, the two hours in which we witness the director's narrative skills contain innumerable examples of how printing fear. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

The Others is only adequate as a spectral, psychological thriller and pales in comparison to its predecessors of the 1940's. Amenabar is no Hitchcock and Kidman is neither Grace Kelly or Ingrid Bergman.

| Nov 7, 2019

Beyond the evident technical proficiency on show, the film is still reduced to its primary narrative parlour-game of trying to guess the ghostly twist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2019

If you were scared of the dark as a child, then this movie has your name on it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2018

The show belongs to Kidman, and snugly tailored as it is, she's surpassingly fine.

| Oct 30, 2018

Shrewdly cast, Kidman is pitch perfect. It's a clammy, ingenious film, one of the best studio movies of the year.

| Oct 30, 2018