[Never Talk to Strangers] isn't as suspenseful as an evening with Hitchcock, but just about diverting enough.

| Apr 22, 2025

It's basically a direct-to-video erotic thriller blown up to big-screen proportions, but the stars are attractive and it's passably entertaining -- right up to the ridiculous twist ending.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2009

Reasonably entertaining but largely uninspired.

| Mar 26, 2009

An adequate psychological thriller on a topical theme -- Repressed Memory Syndrome -- but with little special quality, few frills or thrills, and a relaxed, almost languid exposition.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2005

It's an easy-to-watch movie that will be even easier on video, where it should turn up any minute.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

The answer to the mystery was a surprise to me, but I didn't find the answer very convincing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 27, 2003

Barely watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 2, 2002

There's plenty of sex. There's little plot. There's reason to watch something else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2002

and never watch anything with Banderas and DeMornay co-starring...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2002

The film is rife with unexpected revelations and twists but the filmmakers' sly maneuvering, instead of sucking the audience deeper into this psychological thriller, are apt to make them feel manipulated.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

Utterly forgettable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Borderline ridiculous and ultimately pointless thriller.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Even with its sights set this low, the film misfires on every level.

| Jan 1, 2000

One of the least subtle motion pictures this year.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's mysterious and sexy enough to keep tension alive until, too bad, the whole thing collapses with a twist ending that is nearly laughable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Hall] can't triumph over the problems in the script, or tie up all the loose ends, but his brisk, competent approach does minimize the effects of these flaws.

| Jan 1, 2000