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By David Aldridge (158) for Radio Times (2,421) on 20 May 2015

Kenan skilfully combines familiar scary-movie clichés with more original touches, including an innovative use of drone technology, and comes…

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By Garry Mcconnachie (90) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 20 May 2015

While Poltergeist may not reinvent the wheel it's a fairly enjoyable 90 minutes at the cinema…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 20 May 2015

Poltergeist is an update of the 1982 horror of the same name and remains faithful to its story: spirits terrorise a suburban family and make…

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By Anthony O'connor (88) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 19 May 2015

The Poltergeist remake is dull and almost entirely devoid of scares…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for The List (2,018) on 19 May 2015

There is some nice visual invention here and the performances are pleasing (including Jared Harris as a ghostbuster TV personality who comes…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 19 May 2015

Gil Kenan had the greatest of source material to work with when given this project and luckily for all of us, he knocks it out of the park…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 18 May 2015

It's just that little bit sadder that proof exists indicating it could have been so much more…

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By Justin Lowe (291) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 May 2015

While Hooper favored shock value and jump scares, Kenan and cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe construct far more fluid sequences as the…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out London (344) on 18 May 2015

Poltergeist, while entertaining, has more in common with slick, audience-goosing spookers like Insidious and Sinister than with the imaginative…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 18 May 2015

Very tame, but saved from the remake scrapheap by Sam Rockwell's surprisingly touching performance and a final reel that – briefly – takes…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 18 May 2015

Less a steadily escalating thriller than a guided tour through a county-fair-style haunted house, Poltergeist offers some quality jump scares,…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 18 May 2015

A good cast including Sam Rockwell and Jared Harris wander around sincerely in what feels, at times, almost a shot-by-shot remake, and at others,…

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By Nick De Semlyen (166) for Empire (3,446) on 18 May 2015

A disappointingly tame and unimaginative effort, which throws away much of what was best-loved about the original and fails to find worthy…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 18 May 2015

Poltergeist ultimately plays like the most perfunctory of remakes, one born of rights ownership and title marketability rather than a burning…

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