...a fun good-bad movie with some plot points to savour...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2023

Bless the Child is unsettling but it is never really terrifying. It's closer to a scary dream than a true nightmare.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2014

A biblical "thriller" so predictable and preposterous that everyone involved should be banished to the confessional for their sins.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 22, 2014

This mystical saga of good versus evil gets a very low grade for originality, packing in as it does too many of the same acrane-mysterioso bits of religious imagery, moody thriller gimmicks and climactic machismo antics as the earlier films.

| Jul 22, 2014

It's all utter nonsense, but entertaining in a daft sort of way, though Christina Ricci is shamefully wasted in an irrelevent supporting role.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2014

I don't know if I'm getting more squeamish, or simply less charitable at being exploitatively manipulated and taken for a moron: possibly both. But I think others will share my disgust at several scenes in Bless The Child.

| Jul 22, 2014

Bless The Child pulls every cheap cinematic trick possible to try and put the willies into its punters and, unsurprisingly, fails.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 22, 2014

A sloppy, silly, and sometimes ludicrous movie perpetually haunted by the specter of what it could have been.

| Jul 22, 2014

An excruciatingly silly script, clunky editing, and an overbearing orchestral score help make Bless the Child something to avoid at all costs.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 5, 2014

This adaptation of Cathy Cash Spellman's novel is pulp fiction with airs, and director Chuck Russell builds absolutely no suspense.

| Jun 3, 2013

A pox on the house of all involved.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 3, 2013

By turns lurid, risible and offensive.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 3, 2013

If you're so inclined, pray that the responsible parties crawl back into whatever hole they emerged from.

| Jun 3, 2013

Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department.

| Jun 3, 2013

A supernatural thriller that does for its genre what Battlefield Earth did for science fiction.

| Jun 3, 2013

Often trite and predictable but grudgingly likable in the end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2013

Director Chuck Russell also made the infinitely better comedy The Mask. After this, he may want to wear a mask.

| Original Score: F | Sep 7, 2011

Winning an Oscar has changed Kim Basinger, and not in a good way.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 8, 2010

The special effects are impressive, but the dialogue is an unintentional hoot.

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

It reps another disappointing outing from Kim Basinger, who's clearly uninspired by the hack material.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2008