The Covenant: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

RottenTomatoes: 71 reviews

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Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

9

This is cobbled-together teenybopper tripe about feuding male witches with nothing to offer but classic bad dialogue.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Nathan Lee New York Times (Top Critic)

20

It's super lame.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Andrew Pulver Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

... this falls well short of the Buffy-level resonances at which [Harlin] was presumably aiming.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

[An] eardrum-punishing, uninspired composite of X-Men and the Harry Potter series ...
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Anyone with half a brain is not this movie's target audience.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

38

... profoundly mediocre ...
Full Review » 6 years ago
Reece Pendleton Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

No one has bothered to develop a coherent story or remotely likable characters to sustain the CGI effects, ear-splitting music, and hyperactive editing.
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Hiltbrand Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

The Covenant has excellent special effects (spiders and specters, oh my!), but it is strikingly lacking in suspense.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

13

Movies like this are why we have eyelids.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

[A] muddled and most unmagical offering.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

... if this mild teen thriller were a cigarette, it would be a Salem light.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

20

[Harlin] still can stage a decent super-natural battle royale. But he couldn't scare a mouse. Nor does The Covenant.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Stephen Cole Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

There is not a scary scene in the whole movie.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

... Covenant is devoid of any real scares.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

17

All that's truly scary about The Covenant are the words that appear before the title: 'A Renny Harlin Film.'
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Ordona Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

The Covenant is a terrible movie, a bucket of water on the teen-witch genre.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Tom Meek Boston Phoenix

38

[An] unbewitching brew of cliches.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

17

Director Renny Harlin ("The Long Kiss Goodnight") phones in this thoughtless teen horror flick from screenwriter J.S. Cardone ("The Forsaken").
Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Marder Hollywood.com

40

Full Review » 4 years ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

40

This forgettable supernatural-teen thriller is the kind of WB-style soap opera where the characters have names like Chase Collins and Reid Garwin.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

13

It's a horror film for the MTV generation, a horror film for the audience of "Laguna Beach"...
Full Review » 5 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

25

The inclusion of a romantic subplot that feels as though it'd be more at home in a Harlequin novel...
Full Review » 5 years ago
David Edwards Daily Mirror [UK]

20

The Covenant looks less like a movie and more like an extended boy band video -- and with about the same amount of depth.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jamie Russell BBC

20

Director Renny Harlin helms like a bat out of hell, and obviously doesn't know a pentagram from a mammogram.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Philip French Observer [UK]

40

A patently silly supernatural teen drama, in which a bunch of Young Hollywood types flex their abs and aim their perfectly-calibrated glances at each other.
Full Review » 5 years ago