The Grudge
Screen Gems | Release Date: January 3, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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3
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16
Negative:
9
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38
New York PostSara StewartJan 3, 2020
For connoisseurs of the “Grudge” series, the brief prelude of this fourth installation links it to the ones that came before. Everybody else, good luck making that connection. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 2, 2020
The first hair-raising moment comes 50 minutes in, but the deaths are anti-climactic even as the chilling tone is maintain, largely through dim lighting and very good actors Read full review
35
TheWrapTodd GilchristJan 2, 2020
The Grudge 2020 is a prestige drama sidelined by lackluster, incoherent horror, ruining the scares and undercutting the humanity of its characters. Read full review
30
Film ThreatAlex SavelievJan 3, 2020
Nothing here is left to the imagination, Pesce running down the list of clichés and ensuring he includes every single one. Once the realization that this is yet another cheap-o retread settles in (about 10 minutes in), the rest becomes agonizingly painful to sit through. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 2, 2020
Nearly devoid of scares for the casual horror consumer, it will likely elicit a respectful dismissal from genre connoisseurs: "We get what you're trying to do," they might gently say to the filmmakers. "It didn't work." Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 2, 2020
The Grudge plods on as if it were something more than formula gunk, cutting back and forth among the thinly written unfortunates who’ve been touched by the curse of that house. Read full review
25
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpMar 26, 2020
Three films into his career, Pesce is batting below average: Last year, he dropped his inventive sophomore stunner, Piercing, and demonstrated range and precision not as evident in his hollow, unrepentantly nasty debut The Eyes of My Mother. With The Grudge, the worst proclivities of that movie override the sensibilities of Piercing and combine with studio horror’s “just play the hits” ethos, resulting in one of the year’s most unpleasant releases to date. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeJan 3, 2020
Nicolas Pesce evincing little of the promise he showed in his prior films, and even less drive to remake the old into something new. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 2, 2020
I saw this movie in the middle of the day, having had a great night’s sleep, and I had to slap myself awake a few times. Read full review
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