The Wicker Man
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: September 1, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
9
Negative:
7
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50
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
In the end, LaBute's remake is an interesting idea that never transforms into a particularly satisfying movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Well intentioned, but only occasionally creepy. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
For this remake writer-director Neil LaBute has moved the action from Scotland to Washington State, added enough scares for Warner Brothers to market the movie as horror, and turned the story into an almost comically Wagnerian expression of the castration anxiety that snakes through his original screenplays. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
The Wicker Man is too loony to be a drama, too earnest to be a comedy, too predictable to be a horror film. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The Wicker Man isn't all that bad a movie; it's visually striking and ambitious in some ways. It just fails to bring enough to the table to fully distance itself from the original. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyMichael Atkinson
This wasn't a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness, letting the story roam in circles just like Cage. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Unlikely to inspire a passionate following similar to the original, the film, which opened Friday without being screened for the press, ultimately induces more titters than dread. Read full review
40
VarietyJoe Leydon
Any provocative questions LaBute might have wanted to raise are totally obscured as the rising tide of absurdity gradually overwhelms the entire enterprise. Read full review
40
Washington PostStephen Hunter
In an era of careful cost accountancy and focus-group testing, it's remarkable that a movie as truly, deeply, madly foolish as The Wicker Man escaped the asylum. But we must be grateful for the endless guffaws and gasps and outright stunned silences it unleashes on lucky audiences. Read full review
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