The Lodger
Stage 6 Films | Release Date: January 23, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
0
Negative:
8
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33
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
It takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The film might amuse some, especially fans of Alfred Hitchcock, but is likely to annoy almost everyone else. Read full review
30
VarietyJohn Anderson
What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
The biggest mystery, perhaps, is why accomplished actors such as Molina and Hope Davis agreed to be in this. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper. Read full review
20
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Nodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Prostitutes are not the only things butchered in The Lodger, a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck. Read full review
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