Bones
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 24, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
13
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyJoe Leydon
A sly mix of haunted house melodrama, slasher pic mayhem and retro-blaxploitation iconography, spiced with dollops of grisly, dark comedy. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Snoop invests snarling meanness with as much authority as Clint Eastwood used to. As an actor, does this Dogg know any more tricks? At this point, he may not have to. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldChris Hewitt
Director Ernest Dickerson uses elegant visuals, suspenseful editing and lighting to give Bones its edge. Read full review
60
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
The rapper-ever-increasingly-turned actor -- is having the time of his life, big pimp styling in a flashy wardrobe as he guts and struts.
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
With his spidery fingers and his velvet eyes, the lean, languid Snoop Dogg was born to be an undead player, and clearly relishes the role of Jimmy Bones. Read full review
50
Washington PostRichard Harrington
Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like "Hellraiser," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Evil Dead." Read full review
50
Boston GlobeJay Carr
You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all.
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A ghetto horror movie that sets up some decent scares before becoming so amused with itself, it's a wonder we don't hear the crew laughing. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Dogg has the makings of a genuinely great actor. When he's on screen the film crackles, and even when he's not it's a trippy, funhouse ride. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little "wow" in this cinematic bowwow. Read full review
40
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Too jumbled to become the major pop hit it wants to be. But it's not an entirely bad film despite its lack of coherence. Horror aficionados and other midnight-movie fans shouldn't miss it. Read full review
40
Village VoiceEd Park
Bones splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
The movie is over the top and garish. Its transitions often are sloppy and crude. But it brandishes its excesses like a loud, retro suit. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
Full of fits and starts, it never really gets going, stalling at every turn without even giving us enough of what we paid to see -- Snoop Dogg and gore. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
Director Ernest -- doesn't skimp on style in a film that bluntly exploits social conscience to pump up its taste for gore. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The tectonic shifts in this camp-horror extravaganza are unsettling. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Regrettably, Bones is what passes for horror these days: Throw a lot of graphic, gore-filled, darkly lit stuff on the screen, and see what sticks. Discerning moviegoers should pass on the opportunity.
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
A silly, boring supernatural thriller that squanders a potentially interesting premise and the rapper Snoop Dogg in his ostensible starring debut. Read full review
10
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
Nothing sums up Bones better than its parting shot, in which maggots are projectile vomited directly toward the audience. How so very appropriate. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Doesn't work at all. Even the structure is off. Read full review
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