The core cast and gothic setting makes for a time-honored and entertaining ghost story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2023

For all its pedestrian qualities, there are a couple of big plus points in its favour. They are Rebecca Hall and Dominic West.

| Oct 26, 2022

Nick Murphy has crafted an elegant haunted-house chiller that turns the screw of mystery and suspense with some cunningly judged surprises and scares.

| Dec 22, 2020

It is beautifully shot and the scenery and the ambience of a large haunted house is wonderfully captured, but can this film be the upstart for the modern British horror?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2019

A criminally derivative and besotted example of the ghost thriller genre.

| Jul 29, 2019

The raison d'être is ludicrous and sewn up in minutes, but the cast is very good, as is the cinematography and symbolism.

| Feb 28, 2019

Tabloid is a deeply personal, yet light-hearted piece of satire lovingly captured through Morris' mesmerising gaze.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2018

The performances are fantastic, especially Staunton who is perfectly cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2018

I do not normally ever say this, but The Awakening actually offended me it was so egregiously bad.

| May 23, 2018

If you're in the mood for some serious spooks with solid acting, The Awakening is worth checking out; but I wouldn't go out of my way if you're looking for anything more than that.

| Mar 8, 2017

A concise little old-school British ghost story, and I say there's always room for a few more of those.

| Aug 26, 2015

a ghost story that wants to be more than just a ghost story, but in the process of trying to be a movie that transcends a genre, it insults the genre

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2013

The Awakening glides ghost-like through its story, laying its own elaborate traps along the way.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 11, 2013

The Awakening is a handsome, well-acted thriller with a script that's never cringe-inducing. So why did it sneak its way onto home video with no fanfare?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2013

[Rebecca Hall] captures Florence's flinty intelligence and the vulnerability that emerges as she slowly discovers the school's dark secrets.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2012

Though the story spirals a little out of control in the film's final scenes, "The Awakening" offers the low-key pleasures of an old-fashioned thriller and a lovely central performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2012

Whatever.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2012

Pretty good, but more pretty than good.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2012

Murphy exhibits a deft touch for a first-timer and can feel satisfied that his film honours the tradition of such spooky Brit works as The Haunting and The Innocents.

| Aug 27, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 26, 2012