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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 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 Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 29 May 2008

Though we always know where things are going, the film still frightens from moment to moment…

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By M.e. Russell (113) for Oregonian (1,550) on 29 May 2008

Imagine Funny Games stripped of all its social commentary, dark humor and information about its killers, and you're starting to get the idea…

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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 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 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 J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 May 2008

There's nothing remotely new here, but the movie has the taut, queasy feel of an early 70s drive-in shocker: old-fashioned suspense without…

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By Brandon Fibbs (448) for Colorado Springs Gazette (140) on 29 May 2008

For inferior horror films to work, they must be populated with characters who act irrationally at best and downright idiotically at worst…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 29 May 2008

Writer-director Bryan Bertino, making his debut, seems to understand the mechanics of the genre without having the slightest sense as to what…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 29 May 2008

The Strangers is a deadly dull experience in boredom, strangled by two cinematic stumbling blocks -- one external and one of its own unfortunate…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 May 2008

riddled with continuity errors...stupid victim behavior cliches...and inconsistencies...begins with its heroine's 911 call but has no viable…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 28 May 2008

a grab-bag of nifty widescreen compositions and sound design stingers, with nothing on its mind besides its own virtuosity…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 28 May 2008

A film to unnerve us enough to either buy some extra deadbolts or kill the next bastard who walks across our lawn…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 28 May 2008

Proves well executed simplicity sometimes can be more effective than bombast, blood and things that go boom…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 28 May 2008

The Strangers has been saddled with an increasingly uneven sensibility that ultimately dulls the movie's overall impact…

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By Kevin Mccarthy (392) for WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) (143) on 28 May 2008

The Strangers is full of cheap scares and unoriginality but does contain an ending that is worthy of a stomach ache beyond belief…

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