The Mist
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 21, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
12
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The Mist is itself a supermarket of B-movie essentials, handsomely stocked with bad science, stupid behavior, chewable lines of dialogue, religious fruitcakes, and a fine display of monsters. Read full review
60
Washington PostStephen Hunter
More political allegory than horror movie. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Less horrific than it is horribly didactic. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin Chang
Much nastier and less genteel than his best-known Stephen King adaptations ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile"), Frank Darabont's screw-loose doomsday thriller works better as a gross-out B-movie than as a psychological portrait of mankind under siege, marred by one-note characterizations and a tone that veers wildly between snarky and hysterical. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
If you have seen ads or trailers suggesting that horrible things pounce on people, and they make you think you want to see this movie, you will be correct. It is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the "Shawshank" and "Green Mile" track record, you will be sadly mistaken. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Until the director Frank Darabont decides that he’s saying something important instead of making a nifty horror movie, The Mist isn’t half bad. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The brutally ironic ending, I might add, won't make anybody very happy about having chosen The Mist for their evening's entertainment. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
A pretentious left-wing monster movie with about 15 minutes of alarming creatures and a whole lot of bickering, is a pre-9/11 story which Stephen King wrote eons ago. It operates in the post-9/11 era about as well as a Studebaker at the Daytona 500. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The Mist contains nary a dollop of wit and irony. As adapted and directed by Frank Darabont, there's no ambiguity either. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The Mist doesn't provoke further thought; it provokes active annoyance at being punished in the service of a pulp morality tale with pretensions. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
I wouldn't say this is laugh-out-loud risible, but there are definitely moments. Still, you might want to consider sitting through the uneven thing just to get to the ending, because that's quite something. You may love it, you may hate it, but forget it you won't. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
A derivative horror picture that somehow rises to the level of a primal scream. The premise is simple, by which I mean both easy to understand and feeble-minded. Read full review
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