Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 162
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 138
Berry's acting talents can't save Gothika from its preposterous plot and bad dialogue.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 32
Berry's acting talents can't save Gothika from its preposterous plot and bad dialogue.
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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 375,015
A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her attention to a clever but deeply disturbed murderer named Chloe (Penélope Cruz), who shares gruesome tales of torture and violence that may or may not be based in fact. One night, Miranda has a hideous
Nov 21, 2003 Wide
Mar 23, 2004
$59.5M
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (170) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (141) | DVD (37)
A mystery wrapped in an enigma -- an enigma that isn't nearly as clever as the screenwriter seems to think it is.
More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that.
Scriptwriter Sebastian Gutierrez and French director Mathieu (Hate) Kassovitz ... treat this movie with all the subtlety of a Judas Priest music video.
Propelled by too many whoppers to create a believable, and therefore legitimately terrifying, universe.
It's a film about the mind that is totally bone-headed, frequently making serious lapses of logic.
Constantly bouncing from derivative to ridiculous and back to derivative again, Gothika will be tolerable for undiscriminating horror fans but should be shunned by everybody else.
Grisly, disturbing, extremely violent horror film.
This shoddy B horror movie doesn't deserve a national theatrical run, much less the capable talent assigned to it.
Gothika takes a credible idea and makes it preposterous. (HD DVD Edition)
Succeeds in making every plot twist more unbelievable and irrational than the last.
An ceaseless stream of Fake Scares, Dream Sequences, and Shrieking Halles.
Berry's grating screams might send you to looney land too.
Gothika est donc un autre film d'horreur qui semble sortir tout droit d'un programme créant des scénarios. Heureusement que l'on peut en rire.
Penelope, thanks for the memories: "He came back again last night and tore me like paper. He opened me like a flower of pain, and it felt good."
"Gothika" is a well-made ghost story. It doesn't advance the horror art form in any way. But as a traditional ghost story, it's quite effective. I am completely mystified by the critical drubbing it received when it came out. My only explanation is that Halle Berry seems to have been the victim of a backlash from both
September 5, 2011
Super Reviewer
A film that isn't highly rated by most, but remains to be one of my favourites and most re-watched films that I own, possibly because it ticks a lot of boxes for me, such as the question of sanity, the setting of a psychiatric hospital, a supernatural element, along with a murder mystery. Gothika has the dark creepy
July 27, 2006Super Reviewer
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