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Avg. Critic Score: 35 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    Actually a marked improvement over the plodding and confusing original. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie could have been a lot scarier. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    A minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    This remake of a South Korean movie ultimately provides fewer scares than the average aging baby boomer feels every time they look into a reflective surface. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing. Read full review

  • 33
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    The film looks to do for reflective surfaces what "Amityville 4" did for killer lamps. Read full review

  • 30
    L.A. Weekly |

    It's a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety |

    Softcore horror at best, failed allegory at worst, Mirrors reflects little beyond Splat Pack auteur Alexandre Aja's desire to push his genre into less punishing and more profitable territory. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    At nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul. Read full review

  • 20
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    An effective sound design enhances several of the film's sudden frights, and Sutherland, who appears in almost every scene, is a predictably solid presence. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Brutal horror movie offers little to reflect on.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this brutal horror movie is graphically, grotesquely, and grimly violent, featuring extensive sequences of special-effects gore. Disturbing, gory images are lingered over, and the film's magical-mirror plotline -- in which mystical reflection images are recreated in the real world -- means that, in many cases, viewers literally get to see the same horrifically violent acts twice. There's also a demonic-possession element to the plot, as well as a bit of sexuality, some strong language, and references to a drinking problem.
  • Families can talk about the nature and character of bloody horror films. Why does Hollywood make them, and what purpose do they serve? This movie -- like The Ring, The Grudge, and Pulse -- is a remake of an Asian horror film; why has Hollywood found Asian horror films so worthy of re-visitation over the past few years? Do violent horror films release negative emotional energy or create it? Can violent, graphic images in films like this desensitize viewers? Does it matter whether the goriness seems "over the top"?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: A lead character is a cop who is suspended for accidentally shooting an undercover officer. Lead characters are dealing with a marriage shattered by tragedy; a child overhears his parents arguing. Demonic possession and theological elements are involved in the plot.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Constant, brutal, and explicit violence, including slashed throats (seen repeatedly in close-up and later in photos); knife wounds; flesh wounds from shards of shattered mirrors; drowning induced by unseen supernatural forces (including that of a child); a grotesque special-effects sequence in which a woman's mirror reflection tears her own jaw loose, fatally replicating the grisly wound on her real-life counterpart; a mutilated body is seen floating in a bathtub; a half-naked female burn victim seen crying in agony; several burn victims seen in supernatural visions; a psychiatric patient being manhandled and restrained; corpses being autopsied shown in great detail; a woman cut to bloody ribbons by exploding mirrors; a character battling an elderly demon-possessed woman in intense close-quarters fighting (her demise includes being shot, impaled with a steam pipe, immolated in an explosion, and crushed with falling debris). Children are in peril. Extensive discussion of a fire with dozens of fatalities and a massacre at a hospital which left 15 dead. A nun is essentially kidnapped at gunpoint.
  • sex false3 Sex: Some kissing; glimpses of naked buttocks and breasts. A lead female character dresses primarily in low-cut tops, wet tops, or low-cut and wet tops.
  • language false4 Language: Some, including "f--k," "s--t," "dammit," "hell," and "bitch."
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Many brands are visible on screen, including Jack Daniels, Quaker Oats, Heineken, Dodge automobiles, UPS, Smirnoff, Crown Royal, Amnesty International, and more.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A character discusses a problematic history with alcohol, noting that they "haven't had a drink in three months." The same character is using a prescription drug with serious side effects to stop drinking. A scene is set in a bar.
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