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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for FEARnet (266) on 29 May 2008

While The Strangers certainly doesn't forge any new ground, there's always something to be said for a horror flick that forges old ground colorfully…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 29 May 2008

The Strangers suffers from lack of originality…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 29 May 2008

A mediocre scare show that just happened to have one of the best trailers of recent times…

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By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 29 May 2008

Though I much preferred the efficient, murderous simplicity of Them, the French original, for the uninitiated The Strangers is a nice little…

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By Adam Tobias (167) for Watertown Daily Times (163) on 29 May 2008

Bertino, who comes off as more of a veteran behind the camera than a rookie, gives the film its own identity by slowly building up the action…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 May 2008

I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 29 May 2008

There's nothing more to it than meets the eye, but Bertino understands the mechanics of suspense and knows how to use them…

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By Susan Walker (133) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 29 May 2008

With no plot to speak of, no character development whatsoever, no theme and precious little intrigue, what we have here is simply a pileup…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 29 May 2008

The Strangers is still entertaining but, just so you know, Them came up with a sharper, more disturbing way to finish things off…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 May 2008

Here's the tricky thing about The Strangers. Sure, it uses cinema to ends that are objectionable and vile…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 29 May 2008

This is one of those rare horror movies that concentrates on suspense and terror rather than on gore and a high body count…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 29 May 2008

Fans of the 'pitiless/merciless killers' school of horror should get a jolt out of The Strangers, a harrowing real-time tale of an assault…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 29 May 2008

Writer and first-time director Bryan Bertino wastes his taut, tense premise -- two lovers, three villains, one house -- by depending on wearingly…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 29 May 2008

Unfolding with an almost startling lack of self-awareness, young filmmaker Bryan Bertino's debut is such a careful, straight-faced knockoff…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 May 2008

Bertino does an excellent job building dread, especially during the first half of the movie…

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By Graham Killeen (120) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 29 May 2008

For a film too goofy to be scary and too clumsy to be fun, even the least discerning splatter fan will find it hard to depend on the violence…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 29 May 2008

You can only string an audience along for so long with scary masks and sudden appearances at the window, and after a while, the suspense starts…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 29 May 2008

The Strangers is nothing fancy, though for a first-timer, Bertino paints a nice claustrophobic picture and knows what to do with the dark…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 May 2008

It's an efficiently made, appropriately terrifying film, downright minimalist in approach and all the more horrifying for it…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 May 2008

Sometimes, dear reader, there's no place like home, and that's just where you should be when this gorefest opens at a theater near you…

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