Paxton steals the show. And O'Leary more than holds his own again here. Too bad it's in a movie that fails to live up to its potential.

| Jul 30, 2013

Violent and ultimately uneven and unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

A resoundingly old-fashioned and well crafted study of evil infecting an American family, "Frailty" moves from strength to strength on its deceptive narrative course.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Paxton's first movie as director is better than you might expect. It has a first rate cast, and Bill Butler's camerawork and some deft editing help to crank up the tension.

| Jan 26, 2006

Paxton not only directs but acts, so there was a double threat. But he does both with so much commitment that the film is a revelation.

| Mar 7, 2003

Bill Paxton's directing debut stands alone in a horror genre currently infested with pert teens and knowing plot tics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2002

Gripping, thought-provoking and disturbing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2002

Paxton wins quiet victories here as both star and helmer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2002

I love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2002

A terrifying low-budget thriller that packs a greater wallop than most of the high-priced studio scarefests.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2002

Chills to the bone -- and beyond, but for pure excitement it's best not to look far beneath the surface.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2002

A suitably suspenseful and disturbing drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

A spectacularly gruesome and emotionally destructive, if fictitious, account of child abuse, mounted to provide two tweaks of emotion in a clumsily telegraphed surprise ending.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

As a first-time director, Paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides Frailty with its dark soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2002

An accomplished debut, but not an enjoyable one; the shivers it provokes are disturbing rather than delicious, and its story is unusually gruesome.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

If you're in the mood to be seriously creeped out, this is the shocker for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002