Review of The Grudge (2019) by Katie Rife for The A.V. Club — 03 Jan 2020

Overall, though, the director and co-writer’s merciless style is muffled by The Grudge’s over-reliance on clichéd jump scares; more damningly, only some of these are effective, even in terms of cheap thrills.

This becomes especially true in the film’s second half, when the ghosts become at once more human and less creepy.