The Mothman Prophecies
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: January 25, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
18
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
This is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Read full review
90
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair. Read full review
80
Film ThreatGareth Von Kallenbach
An entertaining and chilling film that will make you question what you believe about myths and the supernatural. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
Pellington's sharp, fastball compositions and nerve-splintering cutting style are of a piece with such intelligence, devilishly mixing shock with optimism. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Using shadows and strikingly designed sounds, Pellington skillfully creates an atmosphere of otherworldly, invisible menace. Gere and Linney, both solid, dance around the edges of a romance.
75
USA TodayMike Clark
Compellingly watchable horror-spectacle. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
By the end, an end that has a little too much melodrama to it, we can only shake our heads in wonder. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Better than its trailers indicate. Forget the seemingly silly Chapstick moment: Any film that sends a cold shock to your system is doing something right.
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Like a time-travel movie, but without the time travel, The Mothman Prophecies delights in playing with cause-and-effect relationships. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
As the plot loses steam, director Mark Pellington (whose paranoid thriller "Arlington Road" was one of the worst movies of 1999) tends to rely on cheap tricks to maintain suspense, although the final catastrophe is very nicely done. Read full review
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