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

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

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

I prophesy an early exodus from cinemas.

| Apr 19, 2007

Chock-full of pointless backstory and convoluted flashbacks. The filmmakers intend to be mysterious, but it's just murky.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 14, 2007

What could Swank really have done with such a cliche-ridden screenplay, except turn it down?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2007

The Reaping isn't quite bad enough, or even New Testament enough, to qualify as a sign of the impending apocalypse. But by the time it's over, you know you're getting close.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2007

A slick-looking but incredibly schlocky horror film.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007

For bad-movie lovers, it's manna from heaven.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 7, 2007

Religious horror will always be with us, but if The Reaping connects, it'll only be because we sinned on the ticket line.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Apr 7, 2007

What, I shudder to think, were the projects Hilary Swank turned down in favor of this one?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 7, 2007

It's hard to believe that when God does reap his vengeance that it will be this boring.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2007

Unfortunately for me, the answer to that particular question isn't a very good one. The film falls apart in the final twenty minutes, the filmmakers unleashing a cacophony of idiotic stupidity and banal familiarities the whole thing collapses in laughable

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2007

The only remotely notable thing about this particular jumble of boos, bangs and door creaks is that it tries to wed the horror trend with the heated-up God market.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 5, 2007

[Swank's] deft gestures and subtle inflections ring false, thanks to a script that forces her to follow the cliches of the genre, not break free of them.

| Apr 5, 2007

Note to respected actors: If the movie involves dodging swarms of sparrow-sized locusts, tromping about in a creepy, blood-red river or facing down a scary little girl believed to be possessed by Satan, run, don't walk, out of the studio meeting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 5, 2007

The film succumbs to the plague of clichés -- things suddenly leaping into the frame, screeching sound effects, and a gag that must have been old by the time Moses hit puberty: Look at this freaky stuff! Oh, it's only a dream.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2007

What once held some promise of being a clever film explodes into a mess of trite plot devices and sad attempts to explain the rapidly degenerating vision of the filmmakers, who seem hell-bent (pardon the pun) on imparting some sort of religious lesson.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Apr 5, 2007

A worthy genre entry and certainly better than most recent horror movies -- thanks mostly to its lead.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2007