The fragile hope that we might have a grown-up horror movie on our hands is smashed to smithereens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2011

This is a workmanlike movie that is never quite scary enough, and never quite ingenious enough, though the four leads do an honest enough job.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2011

An utter waste of time and talent.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 24, 2011

A well-acted but ramshackle mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2011

Like most of its ilk, this starts off nicely but doesn't hold up to close rational scrutiny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2011

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 19, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2011

This film is a confounding mess despite its impressive cast and director.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2011

The film's ambitions are woefully small and familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 1, 2011

This suburban gothic is a logy, convoluted mess.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 1, 2011

Sloppy filmmaking, sloppy writing, sloppy editing. It's too bad the acting isn't as bad. At least then the talented cast wouldn't come across as silly for having given their all to a dead end project.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 30, 2011

While Will and Libby struggle to adjust their thinking caps, the viewer already knows, thanks to the tell-all trailer, the reason for much of the confusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2011

This crackpot thriller from the usually competent Jim Sheridan leaves only one mystery unsolved: what on earth was he thinking?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Daniel Craig does everything to dispel comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining with a finely tuned performance, but the film flattens as it tries to explain his character's psychological state.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2011

Sheridan's pacing is turgid and mournful, which lends the story -- sort of like The Shining crossed with Gothika during a sleepover stop at The Amityville Horror -- an air of ponderousness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Sheridan can't ever quite get hold of the tone and falls back on a default dreaminess (the little girls play a shaky rendition of Beethoven's "Für Elise" more than once) that never quite convinces.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Despite the talent involved, this is more a snooze than a dream.

| Sep 30, 2011

Director Jim Sheridan and his actors make you believe in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 30, 2011

There are probably some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories that would explain why Dream House is such a ruined pile of nonsense.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 30, 2011