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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Aug 2012

The Awakening is nonsense, but with its posh British cast and colors drained to near-gray, it's very solemn nonsense…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 15 Aug 2012

Delivers a series of well-chosen jolts and unsettling ideas…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2012

Perhaps this is a film that needs to be seen several times to fully understand the last 20 minutes…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Aug 2012

The Awakening just meanders like an aimless ghost…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 15 Aug 2012

Most of the supernatural sightings are flickers at the corners of the screen, so that at certain moments watching the movie feels like taking…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Aug 2012

There is nothing in the film that will keep you awake at night…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 15 Aug 2012

It's routine stuff as horror setups go, especially if you've seen such obvious influences as The Orphanage and The Others…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Aug 2012

The Awakening is both a ghost story and an exploration of mourning and survivor's guilt, though a late twist turns the film away from its delicate…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Aug 2012

Has more than its share of flaws, but it also gets its balance of tones right, proving spooky, involving and occasionally resonant, while still…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 15 Aug 2012

The film benefits enormously from having the luminous Rebecca Hall as its lead…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 15 Aug 2012

As ghost stories go, this one's done just well enough to provide reminders of how it has been done better…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Aug 2012

This stately chiller owes a lot to 1960s British flicks like The Innocents and The Haunting, but unfortunately heads towards cliches with every step…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2012

The film takes pains to ensure that the story feel like laborious toil rather than a trip through the dark side of the ethereal…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Aug 2012

This handsomely made spook story (love those echo-prone hallways!) becomes less involving the more the narrative's mysteries are solved…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Aug 2012

Hall's committed performance validates even the maddest developments, and she slips into the period well, recalling Virginia Woolf in her lank,…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ShockTillYouDrop.com (47) on 13 Aug 2012

A haunting film and Rebecca Hall's performance is something that sets it apart from other recent ghost story movies, but the ending may leave…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 11 Aug 2012

You want scary? Stick to the ghost ride in Coney Island…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Aug 2012

Not to be confused with a dramatization of Kate Chopin's great 1899 proto-feminist novel, this by-the-numbers British ghost story, set just…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Aug 2012

Though handsome to look at, so-so supernatural chiller The Awakening recalls The Others, The Orphanage and other haunted-house tales of recent…

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By Adam Smith (163) for Radio Times (2,421) on 16 Nov 2011

This is no classic of a notoriously difficult genre, but if you can forgive the silly conclusion, it's still satisfyingly scary…

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