This film is a whole lot scarier than you think it's going to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2017

This is a cleverly made, smartly written, totally satisfying armrest-gripper.

| Jan 6, 2014

The Call is the kind of vaguely smart, extremely gory gloop you should watch on 온라인카지노추천, preferably when you're tucked up in bed with a delirium-inducing fever. That way, you won't notice when the script goes bonkers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2013

A promising picture turns into gibberish. Shame.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2013

The story and set-up feel conceptually flawed from the get-go. This was never going to end well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2013

It's a neat nerve-frayer with lessons for anyone finding themselves trapped in a confined space and needing to alert the outside world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2013

It's the trashy premise that hooks you in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2013

Just when the movie has us in its grasp, the script falls to pieces and turns into a crass female-in-peril button-pusher.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2013

The kind of clichd nonsense so common in the mid-'90s, it's a throwback - and not necessarily in a good way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2013

Claustrophobes beware of The Call, Brad Anderson's emotionally rending thriller that transpires almost entirely on the telephone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2013

Crude as it is, The Call milks its jump scares and don't-go-down-to-the-basement tension for all they're worth. See it with a full house, if you absolutely must see it at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2013

You can envision a really interesting version of The Call. This, regrettably, is not that version.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 18, 2013

A quintessential guilty pleasure. Portions are nearly devoid of quality, making you resent the more enthralling bits until you have no choice, but to give into the satisfaction and enjoy the ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2013

Let's call The Call what it is: high quality trash that both diminishes and is redeemed by all the talents who have deigned to bring it to life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2013

If you're going to watch a movie in which two people talk on the phone for most of the film, it's not the worst thing in the world for one of the folks involved to have the face of Storm from the X-Men.

| Original Score: B | Mar 15, 2013

"The Call" consciously decides to slowly drown itself in the tub.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 15, 2013

Yes, it's cheese, but it's good cheese.

| Original Score: B | Mar 15, 2013

I'll say one thing for "The Call": Its ending is actually a bit of a surprise. Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, pow!

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 15, 2013

Can't someone come up with screenwriting software that signals when a script has made the fatal slip from hyped-up suspense to sheer ludicrousness?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2013

The material has the mild impact of a special episode of a network crime series, with Eklund's villain a figure of mannered creepiness rather than profound chills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2013