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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 10 Oct 2012

A horror movie's doing its job if you catch yourself eying the corners of the screen, anxiously searching for the presence of evil waiting to strike…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 10 Oct 2012

There's something smarter, and truly creepy-crawly, about the way this movie sneaks up on your ears…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 10 Oct 2012

One of the scariest horror movies I've seen in a long, long time…

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By Soren Anderson (264) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 10 Oct 2012

That title is off the mark. Here's a better one: Stupid…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Oct 2012

It's all done in questionable taste, mucking around in the nasty terrain of snuff films and children in constant peril, but Sinister is smart…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Oct 2012

And then there is Vincent D'Onofrio, as a university professor of the occult and mythological, who opens up a line of possibility that eventually…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 10 Oct 2012

Its slow build is more dull than involving…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 10 Oct 2012

A scary movie that knows the imagination is the scariest place of all…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 10 Oct 2012

That title is off the mark. Here's a better one: Stupid…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Oct 2012

The film's sound design is also expertly wrought with a blend of nearly subliminal noises, bumps in the night, and other frights…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 09 Oct 2012

Sinister is pretty much everything to hate about modern horror in one mixed bag, a ramshackle teardown of jump-scares and creaky tricks, saw-it-coming…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 09 Oct 2012

[Villain] Mr. Boogie shows up too often to be effective, but is kept too mysterious to be interesting…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Oct 2012

I knew perfectly well, after a while, what Sinister was going to scare me with. But I got scared anyway…

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By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Oct 2012

Ellison's fascination with celluloid to solve a crime recalls Antonioni's Blowup, but Scott Derrickson is unable to conjure an aura that isn't…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 09 Oct 2012

Occasionally stupid (stretching even fright-flick conventions) but scary nonetheless, the picture should please horror fans…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Hawke's taut performance - lightly parodying his own career doldrums while playing an egotistical hack who's a close cousin of John Cassavetes's…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Oct 2012

Throughout Sinister, the rooms remain darker than crypts, whether at breakfast or dinnertime, and the sound design causes everything in the…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 Oct 2012

The psychological vagaries of real people who commit terrible crimes and real people who investigate them are not in the cards here, not when…

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By Alan Jones (357) for Radio Times (2,421) on 06 Oct 2012

Cool in its crafty mood placement, confidently restrained during its nastiest moments and mining provocative lines of devastating nuance, the…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 06 Oct 2012

There are a number of reminders of Kubrick's The Shining here, none of them resonant…

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