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Avg. Critic Score: 35 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    I think you can say that almost everyone watching this will be spellbound, whether they're stupefied by its insanity, more conventionally compelled by the various horrors in store or a combination of both. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Then the aliens show up, chased by Morgan Freeman as a nut-job Army colonel, and the movie degenerates into a sorry, silly, gory, punishingly overlong creature feature. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    All in all -- well, there is no all in all. There are just parts. Some fit, some don't. Some are cool, some aren't. It's the craziest thing you ever saw. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Simultaneously jokey and scary, sentimental and ruthless, tediously everyday and grotesquely out of the ordinary. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The nightmare is that the live guys in this Dreamcatcher lose the battle the minute the mechanical worm turns. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong? Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | David Rooney

    Overlong and unwieldy grab-bag of vintage monster-movie elements starts intriguingly as a snowbound deep-woods chiller, but gradually dissolves into a mess of other-worldly invasion and military counter-offensive. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Could hardly be called a success -- it's rather a likable disaster. Read full review

  • 25
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    A moviegoer's nightmare. The story is incoherent, inane and interminable. Read full review

  • 10
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    As five or six bad movies squished together, it almost seems like a bargain. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ This Stephen King is way too scary for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is intensely scary and violent. Characters use very strong language and make explicit and graphic sexual references. One character abuses alcohol, and many drink and smoke.
  • Families can talk about disabled people, and why some people go out of their way to pick on them while others appreciate their gifts. What made the four boys so loyal to each other? How do we know when a person like Kurtz has gone too far, and at that point, who can stop him? He makes a Jeremy Bentham-like argument that the ends justify the means. Under what circumstances is that the case?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: None
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Extreme and graphic peril and violence
  • sex false5 Sex: Explicit sexual references
  • language false3 Language: Some strong and salty language
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Character abuses liquor, drinking and smoking
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