The Dead Zone is a better Stephen King film than a David Cronenberg film. There's some great imagery here, but the best storylines (the murders) are speedily wrapped up to get to the hastily developed battle between Johnny and Stilson

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2023

Walken’s layered performance and Cronenberg’s sensitive direction [give] The Dead Zone an acutely bittersweet edge.

| Sep 16, 2023

One of [Cronenberg's] most perceptive and complex dramas.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2023

A beautifully depressive New England mood piece, with Christopher Walken's best performance ever.

| Original Score: A | Dec 2, 2022

In a career built on unsettling, uncompromising bleak visions, "The Dead Zone" is among David Cronenberg’s most poignant, powerful and strangely humane.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2022

The Dead Zone remains a dissatisfying experience.

| Aug 1, 2022

Over the years, I have grown to love this movie... It's a beautiful film with a great nuanced performance by Christopher Walken.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 31, 2021

Ranks among the finest of all Stephen King adaptations.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 26, 2020

David Cronenberg delivers a curiously flat, uninspired adaptation of Stephen King's book starring Christopher Walken doing his mad sorcerer thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2020

An unusual, fast-moving thriller even though it seems to be two separate stories connected by the same hero.

| Sep 20, 2019

The Dead Zone evokes the feel of this moment with surprising authenticity. The movie's sense of dread, of a system that is teetering on the edge of disaster, feel unnervingly of the moment.

| Sep 10, 2019

What makes the The Dead Zone so frightening-and finally deeply moving-is how it commits to the psychology of a guy whose destiny is destroyed and fulfilled by the way he's slipping through the cracks.

| Sep 5, 2019

The Dead Zone is one of the best Stephen King film adaptations as it deftly combines the supernatural with real world elements culminating in a believable story.

| Jan 29, 2019

Before Christopher Walken was a punchline, he was an actor...you get a great sense of how startling Walken can be as a star, of how unusual and unexpected his every choice is, from his turn in this early-career King adaptation

| Apr 27, 2016

The Dead Zone ultimately ranks as one of the best King adaptations to date.

| Original Score: A | Oct 21, 2013

[An] engrossing yet strangely unembellished adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller by director David Cronenberg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2013

Director David Cronenberg's sense of pace is acute, the editing by Ronald Sanders is seamless and suspenseful. And, if nothing else, the movie establishes that chills can be generated without explicit gore and violence.

| Aug 16, 2013

It's both moving and quietly unsettling as it builds towards a forceful climax.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2010

An accomplished psychological thriller.

| Oct 7, 2008

Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2007