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

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

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

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

It is well constructed, as opposed to incompetently deconstructed.

| Oct 30, 2018

In a way, The Others finishes what The Blair Witch Project started -- once again reminding us that unseen forces often make for the scariest, most memorable cinematic experiences. It's certainly true if this is anything to go by.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Good but creepy; may be too intense for some.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Watch it, and see what was wrong with the Zemeckis/Ford/Pfeiffer flop What Lies Beneath.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2002

A welcome change of pace from most contemporary scary stories, where the shocks come with all the subtlety of flashers jumping out of park bushes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Amenábar racks up the tension to unbearable levels in a spooky shocker that's worthy of any comparison with M Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2001

Full Review | Aug 20, 2001

I saw the ending a mile away and couldn't have jumped higher.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2001

Creeps into your bones and makes you shiver.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2001

It's that most rare of spookshows: a literate and mature ghost story that works on multiple levels simultaneously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2001

A tantalizing spine-tingler.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2001

Mr. Serling would be pleased.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2001

Bumpy at first, with a few too many clichés and an awful lot of doors opening and closing. But by its final image -- a beautifully fading portrait through a window -- I was swept in.

| Aug 10, 2001

Clever as the film is, though, it turns out to be an exercise in narrative withholding that's more headache provoking than suspense laden.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2001

Creepy-verging -on-campy thriller with a great payoff, but a lot of broken promise.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2001