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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    In the handsome, haunting submarine thriller Below, the usual perils of deep-sea maneuvers are heightened by psychic unraveling. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    An ingenious hybrid of submarine movie and ghost story. And there's a wee bit of "Macbeth" in there too. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Has a slamming first hour. As Ian Wilson's camera darts over Charles Lee's spookily atmospheric sets, enigmas sprout like mushrooms. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A movie where the story, like the sub, sometimes seems to be running blind. In its best moments it can evoke fear, and it does a good job of evoking the claustrophobic terror of a little World War II boat. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Has the bad luck to come on the heels of Kathryn Bigelow's beautifully made and politically impassioned "K-19," making this submarine picture -- a relatively modest, low-budget affair -- seem skimpy by comparison. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    The story offers an interesting twist, but the only really spooky part is when a Benny Goodman record insists on playing without human aid. More scares, please. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    The dialogue, heavy on sarcasm and puncturing insults, never captures the World War II period but sounds ridiculously anachronistic. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It just never began to work for me, and the sub story behind the ghost story is far more interesting than the ghost story in front of the sub story. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    This hokey thriller reps what one can only hope will be a one-of-a-kind hybrid between a World War II actioner and a ghost story outfitted with innumerable false-alarm shock cuts and shot with enough colored lights and filters to delight Baz Luhrmann. Read full review

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