...a relatively decent premise that's employed to progressively unwatchable effect by Hopkins...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 1, 2019

He lays the photos out on the floor and the burn marks form a cross with a hook at the bottom, the unmistakable emblem of '70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult. Hey, didn't they have a big hit called "(Don't Fear) the Reaping"?

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 6, 2010

At no time does director Stephen Hopkins give us reason to care.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 19, 2008

Although terrible, this film does raise ... interesting questions: Why does Hollywood keep ripping off THE OMEN? Why would anyone continue hiring Stephen Hopkins to direct a movie? Why would two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank agre to be in this mess?

| Jul 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2007

I did like the bugs.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 6, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

If The Reaping had been sown with fresher ideas, you might actually care if the devil went down to Georgia, er, Louisiana.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2007

The cumulative effect is likely to make viewers weary, but not so weary that they can't manage a chuckle or two during the film's cheesed-out final minutes.

| Original Score: C- | May 28, 2007

Is this movie a good old-fashioned good versus evil potboiler or a newfangled political statement about anti-intellectualism? The Reaping could have gone either way, but it did neither, and it did so spectacularly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2007

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| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2007

The most positive thing about The Reaping is that it isn't as big a waste of time as last year's Omen remake; it's 14 minutes shorter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 2, 2007

The 11th Biblical plague.

| Original Score: D | May 1, 2007

The impressive cast do their best to bring a sense of conviction to the piece, but it had to have been blind faith that brought them into such an unholy mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2007

Between effects-shots is a whole movie of people discussing how fascinating things are.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2007

If you had to choose between watching this and suffering boils, take the option which at least you can treat with a cream rather than years of expensive therapy

| Apr 24, 2007

It's a sad state of affairs when the fit of Hilary Swank's casual slacks is more interesting than a plague of locusts.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 24, 2007

Satanic horror films are always good for a laugh, and this one is no exception.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2007

... goes from barely tolerable to insufferable in the time it takes to unveil a stupid twist ending ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Here, for all fans of the world's most pathetic movies, is an apocalyptically disastrous horror flick set in the Bible belt.

| Apr 20, 2007