The Others: Critic Reviews

A tantalizing spine-tingler.

A welcome change of pace from most contemporary scary stories, where the shocks come with all the subtlety of flashers jumping out of park bushes.

I saw the ending a mile away and couldn't have jumped higher.

It's atmospheric, stylish, and spooky. The plot is well thought-out and its secrets and mysteries are unveiled slowly. Unfortunately, it is also cold, distancing, and moves at a glacial pace.

Good but creepy; may be too intense for some.

The Others is a modern horror film with an old-fashioned touch, relying on suggestion and suspense to generate fear.

Nicole Kidman's brilliant turn dominates this sumptuously made supernatural thriller, which sustains creepy tension without relying on gory violence or special effects.

The Others, like its popular predecessors The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects, keeps us (here, literally) in the dark for the entire movie and then, just before everyone packs up to leave, throws a shocking curve our way making us rethink everything we

The ending is rather predictable, but the rest of the film is very skillfully wrought, with excellent performances by adults and children alike.

A must see - or should that be scream?

in this elegantly crafted, chillingly effective tale, [everything] is significant. Nothing in the writing or directing is left to chance.

For every dozen slasher films, there is one genuinely innovative and hair-raising horror film that dares to take chances and force you to rely on your imagination

The final reel of The Others is reasonably captivating, but the 85 minutes that come before it are mostly just dull and atmospheric.

Like a stranger following in the blackness of twilight, The Others creeps up on an audience when they least expect it and leaves them breathless and dreading. It's a throwback to psychological terror films of yesteryear. There's no blood or foresee

Good ghost story ... genuinely creepy.

Writer-director Alejandro Amenabar has assembled a chiller that's thoroughly engrossing without ever grossing us out, and he's gotten an intense, masterfully modulated performance from Kidman that easily ranks among her finest.

Unlike most films about the supernatural, this spellbinding psychological thriller creates suspense through character-development and atmosphere, not by relying on creepy special effects.

Muitos filmes sao capazes de provocar sustos; poucos, porem, conseguem causar arrepios como Os Outros.

Hey, Shymalan, De Bont...This is how you make a haunted house/ghost story!

The sound effects editors and cinematographer ... had a field day with this film.

Watch it, and see what was wrong with the Zemeckis/Ford/Pfeiffer flop What Lies Beneath.

...relies as much on the evocation of mood as it does on things that go bump in the night.

[Kidman's performance turns] Amenabar's simple genre piece into a suggestive fairy tale meditation on mothers and their children.

As surprising a gem as you can find in what seems like an increasingly tired genre.

Los Otros representa un nuevo clasico del genero, y el tiempo seguramente le dara el justo lugar que merece.