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

  • 75
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    Strong acting and smartly tuned-in directing turn a run-of-the-mill detective story into a striking, sometimes harrowing blend of horror and suspense. Read full review

  • 70
    Dallas Observer | Gregory Weinkauf

    If you happen to be seeking a fairly cute film concerning occultism, torture, and murder, here ya go. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | David Rooney

    An enjoyable throwback to the occult psychological horror-thrillers of the late 1970s. While it flirts often with campy excess, the film remains compelling thanks to its chilly mood, stylish visuals and polished production values. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Sometimes a movie's charm materializes where you least expect it and in this particular case it emerges in the unlikely form of Henderson's character, Scotland Yard detective Janet Losey. Read full review

  • 60
    L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas

    As Willing moves the movie along its well-worn, Ruth Rendell–ish path, it accrues a certain fusty British charm, along with the requisite (and, for this reviewer, most satisfying) amounts of satanic symbolism, creepy mute children and abandoned gothic churches. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    With such plodding dialogue, there's little the actors can do to surmount the falsity, although Ms. Shaw, in her brief appearances, almost succeeds. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice | Jessica Winter

    Willing's confused procedural -- derived from a novel by Madison Smartt Bell -- is a hasty throwback to the sado-medieval Exorcist descendants of the turn of the millennium (Stigmata, Stir of Echoes, Lost Souls). The somnolent cast can't keep the faith. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post |

    The plot, loosely derived from Madison Smartt Bell's "Doctor Sleep," is utterly stale. On their way to confront ancient evil, Strother and Losey keep tripping over timeworn cliches. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Adapted - badly and unfaithfully - Close Your Eyes is a convoluted jumble of paranormal psychology, occultism and pagan symbolism, topped off with a quest for immortality. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A cheaply made piece of ''psychological'' occult schlock, subjects you to that depressing stop-and-go rhythm that defines inept fantasy thrillers. Read full review

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