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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2013

Neither romantic nor fake romantic, and not at all ridiculous, The Host has an atmosphere that is cold, austere and sardonic…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for The Grid (42) on 29 Mar 2013

Director Andrew Niccol is completely unable to add any depth or elegance to Meyer's pedestrian storytelling and thin characters…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 29 Mar 2013

Not as excruciating as The Twilight Saga, but totally ludicrous, and packed with dopey dialogue…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 29 Mar 2013

If you're looking for a few laughs from the unintended camp, or are desirous of letting loose with your own MST3K commentary, the film might…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 29 Mar 2013

The Host is like its central character: a vacant husk, completely bewildered inside and out, with the faint sound of a good idea trying to…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Mar 2013

Meyer has concocted an extremely silly story made worse by Andrew Niccol's ponderous, self-important adaptation…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 Mar 2013

A goofball teenage sci-fi romance, The Host is an End of Days parable that seems like it was written at a slumber party…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 29 Mar 2013

If only the movie played as nicely as it looked…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 29 Mar 2013

Make no mistake, The Host is a bad movie, but it's the kind of bad movie that's almost compulsively watchable if only to see how much worse…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Mania.com (396) on 29 Mar 2013

Populated by one-note characters and the kind of moral subtext that usually precedes cult suicides…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 29 Mar 2013

An alien invasion movie that consists of Saoirse Ronan and Disembodied Voice of Saoirse Ronan arguing with each other over whether and when…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Mar 2013

As with the Twilight series, The Host's infelicities—drab dialogue, ridiculous plotting, more emotional crises than there is story—are…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 29 Mar 2013

Niccol and Meyer -- who co-produces this, her first post-Twilight film -- choose to trade away any shred of the ripe social subtext that has…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 29 Mar 2013

To work, The Host would have required a visionary interpretation rather than the mundane telling that Niccol opts for…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 28 Mar 2013

Dopey, derivative and dull, The Host is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Mar 2013

Ronan, youthfully elegant as always, tries hard, but the material defeats her…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 28 Mar 2013

An invasion of the body snatchers is preferable to realizing that the true horror perpetrated here is not on the characters but on the audience…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 Mar 2013

The film may as well be titled Stephenie Meyer's Waiting Around…

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By Michael A. Smith (689) for MediaMikes (371) on 28 Mar 2013

One of the side effects of having a soul take over your body is the appearance of beautiful blue eyes, shining brighter than a star…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 Mar 2013

Do not consume The Host before operating heavy machinery. Side effects may include spontaneous coma or fits of giggling…

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