Gothika Reviews

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Top Critic
Antonia Quirke
London Evening Standard
December 18, 2017
The most interesting thing about this clunky, foolish horror flick -- in which everybody but the audience is constantly caught off-guard -- is Berry's scrappy wig.
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Joe Leydon
The Moving Picture Show
July 19, 2014
Berry struggles to retain some shards of dignity as she dutifully plods through the contrivances of Gothika.
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Steve Newton
Georgia Straight
February 9, 2014
The same story was told much more skillfully-and with a lot more scares-three years back, when it was called What Lies Beneath.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 24, 2010
Grisly, disturbing, extremely violent horror film.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
May 14, 2009
This shoddy B horror movie doesn't deserve a national theatrical run, much less the capable talent assigned to it.
Full Review | Original Score: D-
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
The burning question I'm still asking myself: What does Gothika mean? Now that I think of it: I could care less.
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Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
August 7, 2008
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
December 27, 2007
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Empire Magazine
April 1, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Film Threat
December 6, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Bullz-Eye.com
July 5, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
May 3, 2005
Succeeds in making every plot twist more unbelievable and irrational than the last.
Full Review | Original Score: D
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
April 2, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Scott Weinberg
Monsters At Play
November 28, 2004
An ceaseless stream of Fake Scares, Dream Sequences, and Shrieking Halles.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
October 23, 2004
Berry's grating screams might send you to looney land too.
Original Score: C
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama
October 12, 2004
Gothika est donc un autre film d'horreur qui semble sortir tout droit d'un programme crant des scnarios. Heureusement que l'on peut en rire.
Original Score: D+
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
September 20, 2004
... the 80-minute setup for the shock has nothing to do with engaging the deep-seated fears and emotions that really plague us all, at some level, every day.
Original Score: 0.5/4
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus
July 20, 2004
A tense storyline and a well-realised performance from Berry make Gothika a nice addition, but there's nothing that stands-out to make it anything more.
Original Score: 60/100
Oz
eFilmCritic.com
May 26, 2004
Lights flashing on and off are not scary. Overweight cops with sexual problems are not scary. Both together? Not scary. Or even mildly entertaining.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sunday Times (Australia)
April 26, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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