...a terrific, literate and genuinely scary thriller to savour...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2021

That the poor are simply portrayed as being feasted upon by the rich, indicates a disorientation and tells us something about the ideological difficulties of our own time.

| Mar 5, 2021

It's just not a very good movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Oct 18, 2018

Every generation gets the Ripper who best fulfills its fantasies, and ours fatten on vast conspiracies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2012

Gruesome, predictable Jack the Ripper retelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Moore might not be merrier, but this is far from offal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2010

The problem with this film is that Jack the Ripper takes a backseat to the dull and terrible romance between Depp's policeman character and Heather Graham's prostitute character.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 29, 2009

See it for the stunning visuals and Depp's performance rather than a factual re-telling -- if you can stomach it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Anyone expecting the combo of Allen and Albert Hughes and the famed Victorian serial-killer to result in a gritty, stygian, skin-crawling horror movie will be severely disappointed

| Jul 29, 2008

Somehow, the movie taps into the book's uncanny implication that the very air is charged with malevolent ancient spirits...

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 13, 2008

Without a script on which to hang their vision, the brothers can only technically succeed. And, for better or worse, they do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

This is a film that should probably go back where it came from.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 21, 2007

This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.

| Apr 18, 2007

A disappointingly conventional thriller from the Hughes brothers (Menace II Society still their best film by far), neither chilling enough as a horror flick nor compelling as a character study; one of Johnny Depp's few mediocre performances

| Original Score: C | Jan 2, 2007

A rare, clever, horror film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Jack the Ripper has proven a far more durable movie baddie than Freddy, Jason and Hannibal combined.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

Fitfully arresting late night entertainment.

| Jan 26, 2006

This movie is beautiful to look at, but has little substance. All Depp and no depth.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2005

They want it to feel like one really bad dream ... and by the film's end we're too dizzy to think, to see if it all lines up.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 15, 2005

What the Hughes Brothers have done in making a lavish period piece complete ...... is nothing less than a revolutionary achievement.

| Original Score: 3 | Dec 7, 2004