The Mothman Prophecies Critic Reviews
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One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out.Read the full review
It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.Read the full review
Compellingly watchable horror-spectacle.Read the full review
Like a time-travel movie, but without the time travel, The Mothman Prophecies delights in playing with cause-and-effect relationships.Read the full review
About as threatening as the real-life insect the apparition resembles; its large, mossy wings may scare some people, but the bug can only damage your woolens. The movie flirts with more damage than it can actually cause.Read the full review
There is very little about the hoary conventions of The Mothman Prophecies that couldn't be improved by a little levity, a little more sunlight and some judicious cutting.Read the full review
So restrained that viewers may start to yearn for a bogeyman to burst from the closet.Read the full review
The Mothman is singularly ineffective as a threat because it is only vaguely glimpsed, has no nature we can understand, doesn't operate under rules that the story can focus on, and seems to be involved in space-time shifts far beyond its presumed focus. There is also the problem that insects make unsatisfactory villains unless they are very big.Read the full review
The movie goes after our dreams by dragging them through our Sept. 11 nightmares with an apocalyptic finale so ludicrous, overedited, and from out of nowhere that it's hard to follow, let alone to believe it's happening.Read the full review
Director Mark Pellington hardly lets a moment pass without suggesting some bad vibes creeping onto the edges of the screen, but he's let down by Richard Hatem's script, based on John A. Keel's book, which delivers an ounce when it promised a gallon.Read the full review
