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

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

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

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

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

Full Review | Jun 6, 2008

Horrendous dialogue and horrific directing dominate this thriller, in which Coleman's performance shines by default.

| Jan 8, 2007

Shamelessly silly, Bless The Child notches up the clichés as the daft story meanders towards a suitably hammy conclusion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The use of child jeopardy as a cheap suspense mechanism is somewhat dubious, but one's unease is slightly mollified by the fact that much of this is far too silly to take seriously.

| Jun 24, 2006

It makes the battle between good and evil look trite, familiar, and boring.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

The set-up ... doesn't exactly have you performing cartwheels of excitement as it lays out its rather transparent tussle between good and evil.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Isn't genuinely scary enough to suppress the inevitable urge to laugh at its cheesy inconsistencies, but isn't howlingly funny enough to raise it to the level of genius.

| Jan 1, 2000

Bless the child. But damn the movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Bless the Child is rubbish.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

This misguided attempt at redoing The Omen for Touched by an Angel ... was also touched by a hack.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film short-changes its own dramatic build by employing cheap cutaways and less than seamless editing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000