At the movie's core is a mystery that simply isn't even remotely interesting...

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jun 11, 2010

More annoying than answering a wrong number phone call.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 16, 2009

Miike's return to the horror genre is a slicker and less original affair than Audition, but also sharply dissects the J-horror phenomenon even as it scares the hell out of you.

| Mar 18, 2008

It'd feel a whole lot creepier if it weren't exactly like that haunted videotape flick.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 29, 2006

One Missed Call is an entertaining love letter to J-horror that delivers on the scary goods and will have many staring nervously at their cell phones for years to come.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

There is very little in One Missed Call that we have not seen before. And yet it works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2005

Miike reins in his anything goes impulses...but still smuggles in his sense of humor and flair for the grotesque, often at the same time.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 11, 2005

Even with nothing at stake emotionally, though, he conjures some real scares.

| Original Score: B+ | May 6, 2005

A prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility.

| May 5, 2005

The film is slow and somber during the windup but pretty scary in the follow-through.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2005

One Missed Call is a mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2005

One missed opportunity to bring something new to a tired genre.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 21, 2005

One Missed Call staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2005

There is something uniquely delicious in what the film says about the desperation of some cell users.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2005

A second-rate J-horror entry that bores rather than scares.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2005

So unoriginal that the movie could almost be a parody of J-horror tropes, yet Miike, for a while at least, stages it with a dread-soaked visual flair that allows you to enjoy being manipulated.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 20, 2005

No more than Miike's shot at generating a polished, rote, expertly composed J-horror flick.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2005

For much of the going, Miike juggles the Asian psychothriller portfolio (elevators, clock hands, vengeful ghosts, buried family traumas) with gleeful skill.

| Apr 14, 2005

All we really learn is that Japanese scream queens and kings can act as poorly as their stateside counterparts.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2005