The Raven Reviews

Movie Reviews

• worth seeing if only for Cusack's boozy turn as the odd bird writer

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• what a ridiculous proposition "The Raven" is

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• viewers can be easily distracted by logistical mysteries

  Review rate : C by Steve Persall [Tampa Bay Times ]

• the story has its moments, and yet there is something about this tale of a serial killer's patterning his crimes on Poe's most gruesome works that doesn't completely satisfy

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• the literate nature of much of the dialogue is undercut by the plot-by-numbers nature of the story arc

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• the director who stitched "The Raven" together has no idea how to frame or compose a scene, let alone "grow" a film organically

  by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• seems incapable of delivering an intelligent film, but Cusack's flat performance is simply painful to watch

  by Justin Strout [Orlando Weekly ]

• provide an ideal jumping-off point for this macabre entertainment

  by J. R. Jones [Chicago Reader ]

• like a masterpiece compared to this incoherent hodgepodge from James McTeigue

  by Peter Keough [Boston Phoenix ]

• lacks in narrative invention it makes up for by pushing the audience's face in blood, guts, and hacked flesh

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• it's all very silly, prompting much unintended audience laughter when it isn't just plain boring

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• does not settle on just one, preferring the usual moviemaking practice of multiplying effects until they pile up into a welter of breathless incident and preposterous exposition

  by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]

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