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By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Mar 2013

A dopey, dull, depressingly inert sci-fi disaster that retains all of the benchmarks of Meyer's mediocrity (the weird politics, the staid plotting,…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 28 Mar 2013

Melanie had two voices in her head. I only had one, but it was clearly telling me that this movie is a mess…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 28 Mar 2013

An original sci-fi vision from writer-director Andrew Niccol, one that takes chances, falls on its face a time or two, and otherwise works…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

The only real conflict here is the one going on inside the protagonist's head, while poor Saoirse Ronan has little to do but look very uncomfortable…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Mar 2013

A long, tedious and often unintentionally hilarious adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s sci-fi follow-up…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Mar 2013

I keep my fingers crossed that The Host tanks at the box office and we never have to suffer a sequel - which is set up at the happily ever…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 28 Mar 2013

Meyer's romantic sense, cribbed from the back pages of a junior-high girl's Trapper Keeper, is given a bit of depth by the strong cast - particularly…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 28 Mar 2013

A sci-fi writer like Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner) might have used this premise to explore notions of memory and identity…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 28 Mar 2013

Simply dismissing The Host as a shallow Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Romeo and Juliet mash-up would be to ignore how effectively it will…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 28 Mar 2013

The Host lacks the adolescent foolishness that made Twilight even remotely relatable, and it isn't even bad enough to be fun…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Mar 2013

The sight of Ronan speaking to herself as the alien as voice overs account for Melanie is titter inducing even before the standard Meyer supernatural…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 28 Mar 2013

The production seems genuinely fearful of turning this effort into anything more than a dewy tale of deliverance, with a side portion of hunks…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 28 Mar 2013

It offers viewers the choice of Team Hokey or Team Absurd…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 28 Mar 2013

By the time the film finally gets to its conclusion -- an obvious set-up for a sequel -- you may wish you'd been possessed by aliens for the…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 28 Mar 2013

It's hard to get past the unintentionally funny way the close encounters of the body-sharing kind are portrayed…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 28 Mar 2013

Sci-fi hits the skids as bad melodrama rules, and we get such risible dialogue as, It's not really me you like, it's this body and I'm still…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 28 Mar 2013

If you wish Stephenie Meyer's Twilight had been even dopier and mopier, then The Host is the movie for you…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 28 Mar 2013

It's painfully obvious Stephenie Meyer is a one-trick pony and a trick like Twilight you can only really pull off once…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 28 Mar 2013

A new-agey sci-fi tale that spends a lot of time talking while making little actually happen..wants to be about ideas, rather than story…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Sci-Fi Movie Page (492) on 28 Mar 2013

If making a Stephanie Meyers adaptation far less annoying than any of the Twilight movies helps [Andrew Niccol] get his next project, it will…

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