Dreamcatcher Critic Reviews

I think you can say that almost everyone watching this will be spellbound, whether they're stupefied by its insanity, more conventionally compelled by the various horrors in store or a combination of both. Read the full review

The longer it takes for the eldritch glop to hit the fan, in fact, the less true the movie may be to King. For better and for worse, Dreamcatcher is true to King. Read the full review

Simultaneously jokey and scary, sentimental and ruthless, tediously everyday and grotesquely out of the ordinary. Read the full review

Then the aliens show up, chased by Morgan Freeman as a nut-job Army colonel, and the movie degenerates into a sorry, silly, gory, punishingly overlong creature feature. Read the full review

All in all -- well, there is no all in all. There are just parts. Some fit, some don't. Some are cool, some aren't. It's the craziest thing you ever saw. Read the full review

The nightmare is that the live guys in this Dreamcatcher lose the battle the minute the mechanical worm turns. Read the full review

How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong? Read the full review

Isn't worth the time, money, or effort. For Stephen King aficionados, it's just the latest cinematic nightmare. Read the full review

Overlong and unwieldy grab-bag of vintage monster-movie elements starts intriguingly as a snowbound deep-woods chiller, but gradually dissolves into a mess of other-worldly invasion and military counter-offensive.Read the full review