Leaving you utterly dissatisfied...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2019

Extreme suspense, graphic violence; not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2010

A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

Ultimately, this is just a big, dumb, commercial suspenser - but it's one of the best for ages, reminding us that it is still possible to make a high quality piece of popcorn entertainment.

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

Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum.

| Jun 24, 2006

Let's hope Fincher has enjoyed his vacation in Popcornopolis; now may the real David Fincher, the black-tar heart David Fincher, please resume his post in the vanguard.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him.

| Jun 1, 2002

We expect more than just craftsmanship from Fincher -- we expect bite.

| May 11, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2002

... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2002

Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2002

Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2002

It's difficult to work up a strong case of the heebie-jeebies when you keep getting thrown out of the movie by all the atrocious acting.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2002

It's a treat for the eyes and ears.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2002

The movie is powerfully manipulative, quite clever and full of evil ambition.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2002

It feels less like a suspense movie than a video-game spinoff of a suspense movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

It's a triumph of technical filmmaking; as a story, it's got ice in its heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2002

It might sometimes forget to make sense, but no matter, since it creates enough tension that the audience can hardly think anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2002

A classy, intelligent thriller for grownups.

| Mar 29, 2002