An intensely visual and sensory psychological thriller, The Lodger will bring terror to your heart and challenge your own deductive reasoning skills at every turn. It's a killer!

| Nov 14, 2019

A smart and creepy thriller transposing a classic London tale to in-your-face modern Los Angeles. Helmer David Ondaatje's deft handling of actors and subtle twists demand a second viewing.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2011

What might have played out as a passable whodunit becomes instead a frustrating drag.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2009

Burdened by a cliche-ridden burnt-out-cop movie screenplay and over-the-top performances that don't mesh, this is a thriller that doesn't thrill as much as it irritates.

Full Review | Original Score: 59/100 | Mar 2, 2009

Ready-made for 3am HBO viewing, The Lodger is an unnecessary remake of a story that's already been covered more than enough times, thanks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2009

Stylish cinematography along with a pulsating musical score make for a somewhat chilling experience, but had writer/director Ondaatje kept the story focused on the serial killings investigation without going off on poorly developed tangents, the film woul

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 30, 2009

The cast works hard to make you believe they believe what the screenwriter tells them to believe. But in the end, it all seems contrived and silly.

| Jan 28, 2009

A virtual tsunami of directorial incoherence %u2014 arbitrary visual cliches of the clouds-speeding-across-the-sky variety, and some of the most inappropriate use of classical music in the history of movies.

| Jan 26, 2009

...The Lodger ends up just another modern-day policier, on the order of an extended "Law & Order" episode.

| Jan 26, 2009

Deviates not an inch from its rickety template.

| Jan 25, 2009

This faux Hitchcock mystery whodunit will only have you guessing why they bothered to remake it in the first place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 23, 2009

This strained, empty effort doesn't work as homage or update, and in its darkly violent sensibility has neither the glamour of Brian De Palma's referential nightmares or even the narrative fuel of the serial-killer-obsessed procedurals that dominate tv.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 23, 2009

Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.

| Jan 23, 2009

A good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper that was most famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 23, 2009

What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2009

The Lodger is a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 23, 2009

Ondaatje's lack of certainty seeps from the dialogue and characterizations to his choice of an overwrought aria-heavy score and a shoddy sense of style that recalls episodic television and myriad Silence of the Lambs rip-offs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 22, 2009

Stark, raving nuts

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 22, 2009

It takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 22, 2009

Nodding, winking and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2009