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Stylish but muddled, this misbegotten adaptation of Henry James' classic novel will send horror-hungry viewers Turning to the source material instead.
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The Turning doesn't make you feel like you've watched a failed adaptation of a horror-lit landmark. It just leaves you feeling totally screwed. Jan 25, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
The Turning doesn't make you feel like you've watched a failed adaptation of a horror-lit landmark. It just leaves you feeling totally screwed.
David Fear
It proves harder still to discern the message in that abrupt ending. Yes, it's commendable to find new ways to tell a classic tale. It's just that this tale has been told better, and more clearly, many times before. Jan 24, 2020 | Full Review…
It proves harder still to discern the message in that abrupt ending. Yes, it's commendable to find new ways to tell a classic tale. It's just that this tale has been told better, and more clearly, many times before.
Jocelyn Noveck
The Turning suggests the devastation that can linger as a result of childhood trauma, and its players seem game to go deeper, but ultimately the film only scratches the surface of this thorny subject. Jan 24, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The Turning suggests the devastation that can linger as a result of childhood trauma, and its players seem game to go deeper, but ultimately the film only scratches the surface of this thorny subject.
Christy Lemire
Only The Florida Project's Brooklynn Prince makes it out of the proceedings unscathed. She brings a playful naturalism to the dark imp Flora. If she keeps it up, she's this generation's Margaret O'Brien. Jan 24, 2020 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
Only The Florida Project's Brooklynn Prince makes it out of the proceedings unscathed. She brings a playful naturalism to the dark imp Flora. If she keeps it up, she's this generation's Margaret O'Brien.
Oliver Jones
Everything is very ham-fisted and crass, with nothing like the ambiguous shimmer of the original story or the style and elegance of the 1961 Jack Clayton film version... Jan 24, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Everything is very ham-fisted and crass, with nothing like the ambiguous shimmer of the original story or the style and elegance of the 1961 Jack Clayton film version...
Peter Bradshaw
The elements are familiar - jump scares, creaking doors, mutilated dolls, tailor's dummies, reflections in mirrors and windows - but they are combined with skill. The hairs on my arms rose at least twice. Jan 23, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The elements are familiar - jump scares, creaking doors, mutilated dolls, tailor's dummies, reflections in mirrors and windows - but they are combined with skill. The hairs on my arms rose at least twice.
Ed Potton
A lousy screw. Jan 25, 2020 | Full Review…
A lousy screw.
Pat Mullen
"The Turning" is another notch on the belt of lame PG13 thrillers manufactured on a budget of five dollars and having an ending with more questions than answers. Jan 25, 2020 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
"The Turning" is another notch on the belt of lame PG13 thrillers manufactured on a budget of five dollars and having an ending with more questions than answers.
Nate Adams
Mackenzie Davis makes the film watchable while Floria Sigismondi creates the perfect goth setting but it lacks scares and an ending. The soundtrack transcends the film. Jan 25, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Mackenzie Davis makes the film watchable while Floria Sigismondi creates the perfect goth setting but it lacks scares and an ending. The soundtrack transcends the film.
Joe Friar
Strips away the ambiguity of the source story to leave us with lazy jump scares, visual gloom, and a cheap cheat of an ending. Gaslights its protagonist and, incredibly enragingly, the viewer, too. Jan 25, 2020 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
Strips away the ambiguity of the source story to leave us with lazy jump scares, visual gloom, and a cheap cheat of an ending. Gaslights its protagonist and, incredibly enragingly, the viewer, too.
MaryAnn Johanson
This contemporary adaptation of The Turn of the Screw takes the ornate enigma of Henry James's gothic novella and whittles it down into something rather more flat and conventional. Jan 25, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This contemporary adaptation of The Turn of the Screw takes the ornate enigma of Henry James's gothic novella and whittles it down into something rather more flat and conventional.
Wendy Ide
Everybody gets screwed in this lackluster thriller, from the young actors whose talents are squandered to the Henry James novella that's been updated in such haphazard fashion. Jan 24, 2020 | Full Review…
Everybody gets screwed in this lackluster thriller, from the young actors whose talents are squandered to the Henry James novella that's been updated in such haphazard fashion.
Todd Jorgenson
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