Overview
Genre :
ThrillerRelease Date :
April 27, 2012MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
James McTeigueStarring :
John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Brendan Coyle, Kevin McNally, Pam Ferris, Dave Legeno
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers Be the 1st!
“..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]
Review rate : C
“..viewers can be easily distracted by logistical mysteries..”
“..viewers can be easily distracted by logistical mysteries..”
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]
