Mirrors: Critic Reviews

38%

MovieWeb: 16 reviews

14%

RottenTomatoes: 84 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

The director, Alexandre Aja, knows how to reflect the fear in people's heads, but he gets too ensnared in a backstory that's just gothic business as usual.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

50

A minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

The remake retains the sensationally creepy ending and it's all reasonably done, but no real chills.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

At nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Alexandre Aja keeps the suspense tight for most of the movie, only to fritter it away in an overblown ending.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Nelson Variety (Top Critic)

Mirrors reflects little beyond Splat Pack auteur Alexandre Aja's desire to push his genre into less punishing and more profitable territory.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Bruce Demara Toronto Star (Top Critic)

38

How could horror be so dull?
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Mirrors is too lugubrious and misconceived to reflect the talent of those involved.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

25

Alexandre Aja's inability to delineate credible or interesting characters results in 110 wasted minutes for anyone unfortunate to wander into an auditorium where this is playing.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

This remake of a South Korean movie ultimately provides fewer scares than the average aging baby boomer feels every time they look into a reflective surface.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live

Full Review » 1 year ago
James Rocchi Common Sense Media

40

Brutal horror movie offers little to reflect on.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

25

Kudos to you if you can figure out what in god's name that ending is supposed to indicate, because I'm lost at this time...
Full Review » 2 years ago
William Goss Cinematical

50

Sutherland's natural stoicism does make the more risible developments and dialogue a bit easier to stomach (a moment when he goes all Jack Bauer on a nun comes to mind).
Full Review » 2 years ago
Anders Wotzke Cut Print Review

40

Alexandre Aja must have thought that just because he's basing a film around mirrors acting irrationally, he can proceed to remove logic from all aspects of the film.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Simon Weaving Screenwize

40

Clunky dialogue sets up the film, unlikely backstory drives it along, and it all concludes in a ludicrous cataclysm of cinematic hyperbole.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

As Joe Bob Briggs used to say: "too much plot gets in the way of the story."
Full Review » 3 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

...often far more entertaining than it has any right to be.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

70

I love a good horror movie, and this offered something different from slasher remakes and zombie flicks.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Holcomb Kinetofilm

In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise
Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Webster Apollo Guide

65

When we should be feeling fascinated by the unfolding mystery and creeped out by things acting up nastily, we instead find ourselves thinking too much and asking questions.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rossiter Drake San Francisco Examiner

50

Jack Bauer can disarm nuclear weapons without breaking a sweat, but he apparently can't locate a script worthy of his real-life alter ego.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Christian Toto What Would Toto Watch?

50

Faint praise alert! Mirrors is nowhere near as bad as the initial reviews - and poor box office - portend.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses

20

ena remake poy oso pio polla soy leei, toso pio ilithio fainetai
Full Review » 4 years ago