| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Mostly an exercise in frustration.

| Original Score: C | Feb 9, 2009

First-time directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud have crafted a highly effective horror film that combines a plausible narrative with accomplished use of sound and image.

| Jan 3, 2008

Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2007

A nerve-wracking finale, a 30-minute chase through the house's catacombs, followed by a closing image that will chill you to the bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2007

Those who like their horror served up neat, no chaser, can safely belly up to Them. It is a pared-down French thriller that trades splatter and gore for tense efficiency.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Them is Haneke on training wheels.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2007

The fright is crafted well enough, but the twist at the end calls for more originality than filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud wield.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Them is more suspenseful than gory; there's little blood, but the tension gradually builds to a nail-biting level - an impressive feat, considering the movie is essentially one long chase.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Taut and remorseless, Them, which is allegedly based on actual events, is the perfect antidote to the stomach-churning gore served up by so many in the current crop of horror films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2007

It should scare up a bit of boxoffice as it does hearken back to the day when horror meant the imagination gone wild rather than severed body parts. Otherwise, the film is all too pointless.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2007

There are moments in Them that are as powerful as anything in the genre in the last few years.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2007

The movie Them revels in atmosphere, using long unbroken takes and ambient sound to lull you into complacency before unleashing nerve-jangling shocks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2007

If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2007

If you're going to imply that a French couple being terrorized in a remote Romanian mansion adds up to something more than an arbitrary (and rather repetitive) don't-go-in-the-basement thriller, then you'd better deliver the goods.

| Original Score: C | Aug 15, 2007

One of the least understood movie monsters is the pronoun.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2007

No story-structure, no succession of scary scenes and then ordinary-life scenes to clean the palate. Just one long unendurably tense and frightening sequence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2007

Lensed with skill to no particular end.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2007