Neil LaBute's knack for biting wit would seem like the perfect fit for remaking Robin Hardy's 1973 classic. Unfortunately what he delivers is an unintentionally funny failure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2020

Sometimes a movie hits the rarest of heights, in fact, some may refer to it as a low. A film that's so utterly bad it's actually good.

| Original Score: F | Apr 17, 2015

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

An exploitative mystery horror film in which Edward Woodward overacts his heart out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2011

LaBute has replaced the seduction of the first film with a general sense of bewilderment and loss; it's good for building tension but doesn't fit with the payoff. The plot elements lead where they need to go well enough but don't mix particularly well.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 10, 2011

When The Wicker Man offers more laughs than Talladega Nights, it might be a sign for the auteur to switch brands to comedy

| Aug 30, 2009

Nicolas Cage gives the worst performance of his career opposite Kate Beahen in this useless update of Robin Hardy's far creepier 1973 original suspense movie based on Anthony Shaffer's novel.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 20, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: C- | Oct 29, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Laughable, awful, and downright ridiculous.

| Jul 10, 2007

...there's just something inherently entertaining about watching [Nicolas Cage] one-up himself every few minutes...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2007

In the final act of The Wicker Man, when Nicolas Cage has donned a bear suit, you have to wonder just what it is you're watching.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

It's a troubled strangeness - the uncommon sight of a literate studio film extolling messages most literate audiences can't get behind - that makes the movie's whole presence fascinating.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

...features an over-the-top leading man utilizing every single tic in his arsenal that has ever been impersonated by a comedian, and doing so seemingly with gleeful abandon and blissful unawareness

| Feb 9, 2007

The Wicker Man's long journey through the decades and across the ocean has led somewhere no one could have predicted, or wanted.

| Dec 30, 2006

Bad idea. Bad film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

By the time he's running through the woods in a bear suit, it's hard to take any of it seriously.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 10, 2006

Neil LaBute's remake of The Wicker Man is a stupid, stupid movie.

| Nov 20, 2006

Neil LaBute -- who never met a story he couldn't turn into a paranoid castration fantasy -- dumbs things down enough to insult the stupid.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2006