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Elevated by Fincher's directorial talent and Foster's performance, Panic Room is a well-crafted, above-average thriller.
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A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise. March 27, 2009
A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise.
Todd McCarthy
Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum.
Geoff Andrew
Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door. July 20, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.
Mark Caro
There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him. June 1, 2002 | Full Review…
There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him.
Manohla Dargis
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time. April 1, 2002
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time.
Richard Roeper
Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense. April 1, 2002 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense.
Neil Smith
Leaving you utterly dissatisfied... January 3, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Leaving you utterly dissatisfied...
Namrata Joshi
How did Fincher - a director who is very good at supplying thrills to thrillers, whatever his other strengths or limitations might be - end up shepherding such a leaden film? November 30, 2014 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
How did Fincher - a director who is very good at supplying thrills to thrillers, whatever his other strengths or limitations might be - end up shepherding such a leaden film?
Tim Brayton
Extreme suspense, graphic violence; not for kids. December 27, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Extreme suspense, graphic violence; not for kids.
Nell Minow
Valuing logic over brutality, David Fincher's claustrophobic ride also touted the real-world practicality of keeping quiet over the cinematic kicks of a loud thriller. It's like "Wait Until Dark" with helplessness that's emotional, not just physical. September 17, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Valuing logic over brutality, David Fincher's claustrophobic ride also touted the real-world practicality of keeping quiet over the cinematic kicks of a loud thriller. It's like "Wait Until Dark" with helplessness that's emotional, not just physical.
Nick Rogers
Apart from one plot twist too many, "Panic Room" is a seamless suspense-thriller with a top-notch cast. May 3, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Apart from one plot twist too many, "Panic Room" is a seamless suspense-thriller with a top-notch cast.
Cole Smithey
There are so little things you can do with this story and a lot of it is pretty contrived. April 29, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
There are so little things you can do with this story and a lot of it is pretty contrived.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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