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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 08 Jan 2016

Zada can't manage to build tension or sustain a consistent air of dread…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Jan 2016

The movie gets completely lost, unsure if it wants to be a serious exploration of repressed memories or a work of giddy, spooky trash…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 08 Jan 2016

The ever-game Dormer and that lovely green forest — which is, according to the press notes, played by a photogenic woodland in Serbia —…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 08 Jan 2016

Japan’s loony suicide culture seems like an adequately scary backdrop for a horror movie, but the routine horror flick The Forest mostly…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 08 Jan 2016

The clichés are so thick, sometimes you can't see The Forest for the cheese…

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By Heather Wixson (312) for Daily Dead (246) on 08 Jan 2016

The Forest is an incredibly well-made effort from first time feature filmmaker Jason Zada and features strong performances from both Natalie…

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By Ben Kendrick (300) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 08 Jan 2016

The Forest struggles to transform its spooky premise and haunting setting into memorable or unique on-screen movie scares…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 08 Jan 2016

A stupid ending with a boring movie attached…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 07 Jan 2016

one of those generic horror films you find at the video store or online streaming, unsure if you saw it but willing to take a chance…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Jan 2016

First-time director Jason Zada does generate an intermittently spooky sense of mystery that not even the muddled scripting can fully demolish…

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By Neil Genzlinger (512) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Jan 2016

A decently executed creeper built around a convincing performance by Natalie Dormer…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 07 Jan 2016

Zada gets credible performances from Dormer and Kinney, but their characters undergo such unlikely psychological contortions that these efforts…

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By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 07 Jan 2016

You're left feeling like you could get just as creeped out by reading a good Stephen King story and then going for a hike in Stanley Park…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 07 Jan 2016

A film as psychologically ambitious as The Forest demands nuance and we get only bullet points instead…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jan 2016

The so-called suicide forest's cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFrightFile.com (124) on 07 Jan 2016

A pastiche of incongruities, a supernatural thriller opting for cheap, fleeting scare tactics over what it really wants to be but doesn't have…

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By Justin Lowe (291) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Jan 2016

Although he can’t quite get a grip on guiding the lightweight narrative, Zada demonstrates a fluid visual style, particularly in the complex…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Jan 2016

Based on a promising premise but quickly devolves into a grab bag of routine gotcha moments embedded in a plot that slides into incoherence…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 07 Jan 2016

The Forest is an almost passable thriller that wants to freak your mind, but a heavy-handed focus on cheap scares prevents it from doing so…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 07 Jan 2016

The accusations of cultural tone-deafness wind up being fairly moot, since The Forest turns out to be so generally inept and non-scary that…

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