There are unmistakable shadows of The Turn of the Screw in Brian O'Malley's modestly successful ghost story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2018

The Lodgers disappoints on a number of levels, many of which have more to do with the limitations of its creators' imagination than the apparently minuscule budget.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 23, 2018

For viewers who take it more as a moody, metaphorical historical drama than as an out-and-out horror film, there's a lot in this lush-looking, sensitively acted picture to recommend.

| Feb 22, 2018

For all the genre exertions, none of this feels the least bit spooky, including the digital ghouls that float in and the cobwebs that look as if they originated in a spray can.

| Feb 22, 2018

The underwhelming mystery at its center damns The Lodgers to mediocrity.

| Feb 22, 2018

The film's obsession with the concepts of family and fate cause it to leave unexplored some other interesting themes, like the encroachment of the 20th century on the European aristocratic class.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 22, 2018

"The Lodgers" is never particularly scary, or even logical, but it's always gorgeous to look at; you can see where it's going, but you might not mind watching it go there.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2018

Things creak in The Lodgers, a painfully genteel Irish horror movie haunted by the spirits of superior ghost stories.

| Sep 28, 2017

A near-miss for this hardcore horror and Gothic thriller fan. It tries to get underneath, but remains skin-deep.

| Sep 22, 2017

As a ripe chunk of pure baroque atmosphere, this lushly staged costume chiller is a fragrant beauty indeed.

| Sep 16, 2017

Finely attuned filmmaking.

| Sep 11, 2017