Mr Harrigan's Phone doesn't deliver much excitement or scares, the very thin plot making it evident that it's based on a short story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2023

The movie is extremely faithful to the novella for better or worse, but director John Lee Hancock makes several minor changes that deepen the themes and create a perfect horror movie for the Autumn season.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 18, 2023

While Hancock’s script has a lot on his mind and the ideas become frayed with the second and third act unfolding sporadically, there’s something hauntingly restrained about this horror/thriller hybrid.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 8, 2023

...Mr Harrigan’s Phone is an ok watch this October if you’re stuck for ideas. It does deliver some good chilling moments and while the film shows potential overall, by the end you’ll find yourself realizing the concept was heavily underutilized.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 4, 2023

A supernatural drama based on a Stephen King story that raises questions about cell phones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2022

Hancock’s film is something more bittersweet, ephemeral and ultimately disposable than that. It won’t exactly waste your time, but the main reason to watch is the ever-leonine Sutherland in his silvery late prime.

| Nov 8, 2022

This effort from Hancock was deathly dull.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 29, 2022

It's another of Stephen King's stories that fails to make a connection when transferred to film.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 28, 2022

Slow pacing and a dearth of scares make Mr. Harrigan’s Phone a lacklustre watch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2022

Put a little King in your Halloween.

| Original Score: 2.5 stars | Oct 24, 2022

It's a pretty simple "be-careful-what-you-wish-for" scenario, handled softly and without many scares, but Martell and Sutherland really sell their deep friendship, and it's easy to forgive Craig for the things he does in grief.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2022

The script was based on a short story and feels like it, mostly because the film seems too vague. It’s open-ended and offers no resolution, which is frustrating as a viewer, despite two terrific lead performances.

| Oct 16, 2022

The slow-burn supernatural coming-of-age story features a cast that delivers layered performances, but the film falters the landing in its overall themes and ending.

| Oct 16, 2022

An intriguing, otherworldly take on the ubiquity of digital comms, it presents a captivating scenario that pushes device addiction to a supernatural extreme...it’s always a pleasure watching such a seasoned player as Sutherland showing us how it’s done.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2022

Given the Stephen King pedigree, I had hoped for more.

| Oct 14, 2022

I would much rather have read this than watched it.

| Oct 14, 2022

While the premise of “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” is intriguing, this supernatural coming-of-age story is poorly paced and never quite achieves the eerie atmosphere it strives for.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2022

I spent the first 30 minutes or so thinking what a completely unhorrific, horror film it was, before settling into its rhythms and enjoying it as the contemplative and slightly melancholic fable of mortality and American disconnectedness it actually is.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2022

Stephen King’s work has always veered between horror and drama, but aside from Donald Sutherland’s first act performance the film works neither as supernatural terror nor morality tale of technology displacing us from our humanity.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2022

This horror film has nothing interesting to offer. In fact, this film does teach one thing to filmmakers: that all of Stephen King’s novels and novellas are not gold.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 11, 2022