So-so Such Potential to be Great by jesus102b The Awakening was set up to be a great horror and suspenseful film, but it came up short when it humanized the ghosts within the film. The ghost started out as horrifying and frightful, then it was...
Go Interesting and Suspenseful by tombyrom Rebecca Hall is a fine actress, and she is great in this movie. It's dark and suspenseful, but with a lot of class as one would expect from the BBC. Definitely not boring. The ending is a bit...
So-so Ghosts by Sandy918 This movie reminded me of the Orphanage. I did like some of the scary moments, but overall, a movie I could have waited to see on DVD....
75 New York Post | The self-possessed Hall is well-suited to this proto-feminist role, smoking and rolling her eyes as the pasty old men around her exclaim, for what is clearly the millionth time, "An educated woman!" as if she were a zoo animal. Read full review
70 Wall Street Journal | John Anderson The film benefits enormously from having the luminous Rebecca Hall as its lead. It also gains an ominous gravity from the haunted, wounded and wobbly England in which it's set. Read full review
70 The Hollywood Reporter | John DeFore A too-rare instance in which a gifted young actor signs on for a fright flick without coming away tainted, The Awakening places Rebecca Hall in a convincing historical setting and gives her more to do than widen her eyes in fear. Read full review
67 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum Not to be confused with a dramatization of Kate Chopin's great 1899 proto-feminist novel, this by-the-numbers British ghost story, set just after WWI, devotes a lot of energy to set decoration. Read full review