This is the undead equivalent of fast food. Some might find comfort in all these known quantities. Those looking for anything of substance would do better to wait for an upgrade.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2017

A deeply silly horror movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2016

The slapdash quality to the plotting is matched by the inept film-making - the dialogue is frequently inaudible, the night scenes murkily lit.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2016

This surprisingly clunky Stephen King adaptation starts badly and goes downhill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2016

Cusack and Jackson aren't on their finest acting form, and this is one to forget.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2016

What makes this movie about a zombie attack different from any other movie about a zombie attack? Nothing but its ineptitude.

| Jul 8, 2016

The concept of humankind turning into one enormous mobile hotspot for use by an evil mastermind has legs. It's too bad Cell cuts the idea off at the knees.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2016

Even if it weren't cheap-looking and dreary, "Cell" would still be hobbled by an entertainment landscape already lousy with zombies, and a hive-mind premise that - at least metaphorically - has been all but realized.

| Jul 7, 2016

Even King's commentary on how cyber-connectivity breeds brainlessness feels shoehorned-in - mostly limited to a few lines from a snooty private-school administrator played by Stacy Keach.

| Jul 7, 2016

Not a polished work of filmmaking. Some of the nighttime scenes are so poorly lit it's difficult to tell what's happening. The editing is ragged and adds to the confusion. More than a few of the supporting performances are embarrassingly amateurish.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 7, 2016

Takes an intriguing satirical premise and dilutes whatever potency it had on the page.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 7, 2016

The survivors never seem like anything but thinly drawn types and the sporadic attack scenes aren't especially original or scary.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2016

It's not a good sign when a movie leaves you wishing that Eli Roth had directed it instead.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2016

Eli Roth was once slated to direct, and would have been better.

| Jul 6, 2016

The film insufficiently connects the book's prophecy with its present-day, real-world forms of realization.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 3, 2016

'The Happening' with phones.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 1, 2016

If you want a good thriller based on a Stephen King story with the same lead actors, watch 1408 instead. Don't waste your time or money on this dramatically inert film.

| Original Score: F | Jun 13, 2016