It's a great whodunit.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Pullman's striking performance here is undermined by Lynch's overreliance on those same grisly shock tactics, as well as a script that fails to capitalize on a promising premise and then swiftly collapses upon the revelation of a not-so-shocking twist.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2009

The film's a failure.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 24, 2009

In this long-time-coming sophomore film, Lynch exercises powers of her own. She gets repellant, seductive, sympathetic performances from her actors. Ormond and Pullman are frightfully good at teasing intimacy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2009

Surveillance suggests 'Jennifer Lynchian' should be used for films that aspire to David's moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 3, 2009

A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple Rashomon.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2009

The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance -- 'enjoyable' in the relative sense -- is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 3, 2009

Ether a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 26, 2009

Every so often, you come upon a movie so jaw-droppingly wrong, you wonder if your eyes are deceiving you.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 26, 2009

Surveillance starts interesting, gets ugly, and ends kind of boring.

| Jun 26, 2009

A would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 26, 2009

Two-thirds of Surveillance is taut and absorbing, yet the cheap third act twist feels tacked on from a lesser talent, say one whose last name rhymes with 'Pshyamalan.'

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 25, 2009

Enervated and uselessly ugly.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 22, 2009

A nasty little slice of backwater depravity.

Full Review | Jun 19, 2009

Beneath the film's surface appeal as a twisty, morbidly funny freak-out lies a weightier theme on the resilience of children.

Full Review | May 12, 2009

Horror fans are likely to guess the twist and feel bored; the more faint-of-heart may simply feel repulsed. And bored.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2009

For a time, Surveillance is sick, smart fun. But then things get weird: yes, there's a big surprise, but its playout is predictable, and nasty.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2009

Trashy material, arty approach, Lynch's comeback is harsh, puzzling and mostly weird-bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Structurally, it's a bit of a muddle but Lynch creates a nicely ominous atmosphere with a sound design that looms up on you like a menacing shadow in a dark alleyway.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009