Bones: Critic Reviews

80%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

22%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

May be pure trash, but it's trash made with the kind of oozy psychedelic zest that powered a movie like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

70

In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little 'wow' in this cinematic bowwow.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Richard Harrington Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like Hellraiser.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Too earthbound to get anywhere near terror.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ed Park Village Voice (Top Critic)

Splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Made with sufficient skill to produce a few shivers. Just as important, it contains enough self-mocking humor to earn a few laughs.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

38

A silly, boring supernatural thriller that squanders a potentially interesting premise.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

Only Pam Grier, the veteran of the last golden age of Blacksploitation cinema, acquits herself admirably here.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

A mangy and ungainly movie, a cluttered and uncreepy assembly of stale cliches, telegraphed scares and low-rent effects.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

A grotesquely uneven schlockfest with large doses of bad writing and bad acting amid the delicious moments.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A garish, grotesque slab of silliness drowned in bloody visual effects overkill with an end result that is more horrible than horrific.
Full Review » 11 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

25

It takes a full hour before anything interesting happens (believe me, I checked)...
Full Review » 9 years ago
Tyler Hanley Palo Alto Weekly

50

Interesting characters and witty dialogue are overshadowed by predictable gore and an overblown climax.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John Venable Supercala.com

...this blows supremely and it's not Snoop's fault.
Full Review » 10 years ago
JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Emporium

60

A fun, over-the-top, campy horror flick starring the perfectly cast Snoop Dogg.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

40

It's just too bad that every horror movie released these days has a numeral attached to it, or in this case...should have one.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Louis B. Hobson Jam! Movies

More creepy than scary, but it definitely jangles the nerves.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Bruce Kirkland Jam! Movies

Not only painfully predictable, it is vile.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Frank Ochieng Filmcritic.com

40

Make no bones about it... this urban frightfest is ridiculously tough to chew on!
Full Review » 11 years ago
Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.)

10

Bones wanted to be stylish but ended up being a waste of time.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

50

The story is a creepy urban parable with a fondness for 70s street culture and exploitation movies and a moral underpinning, but it never gels.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Joe Baltake Sacramento Bee

No one here escapes offensive, negative stereotyping.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle

50

With his smooth-as-smoke voice and street-strutting panache, Dogg has the makings of a genuinely great actor.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Tunison Boxoffice Magazine

Fails so completely to generate suspense, shock, dramatic momentum or anything else that a kind-hearted viewer may end up rooting for it out of sympathy as it slowly digs its own grave.
Full Review » 11 years ago