Box Office
"...An absorbing ghost story with a twist ending of SIXTH SENSE proportions..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 08/01/2001 p.56Variety
"...A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom fit to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect....A delicious goose-pimpler..." 08/13/2001 p.43-52 Entertainment Weekly
"...The movie has a busy, throttling intensity that takes off from the elegant fury of Kidman..." 08/17/2001 p.44-5 New York Times
"...Mr. Amenabar's command of the syntax of fright is impressive....Ms. Kidman embodies this unstable amalgam with a conviction that is in itself terrifying..." 08/10/2001 p.E1 USA Today
"...Kidman is rage to the sixth power....Masterfully shot..." 08/10/2001 p.6E Los Angeles Times
"...Elegantly and deliberately made, reeking of mood and creepiness, it relishes its atmosphere of genteel menace..." 08/10/2001 p.2 Sight and Sound
"...Amenabar's expert script rings enough changes on genre conventions to keep aficionados guessing....[A] terrific thriller..." 11/01/2001 p.53-4 Total Film
"...Plainly there is more going on here than meets the eye....Sit back and enjoy the deliciously clammy chills..." 12/01/2001 p.88-9 | 
