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Metascore®34 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

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

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    You don't have to believe in far-fetched tales of mysterious beams of light and alien abductions to get caught up in The Fourth Kind. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal. Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The result is not entirely uninteresting, but it suffers from some ill-advised decisions. In fact, the film's "hook" may be its greatest detraction. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare. Read full review

  • 40
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Osunsanmi wants you to believe that everything he shows you that's not reenacted by professionals really happened, and is documented by the omnipresent video cameras. It's a device used far more successfully in "Paranormal Activity," which had the added benefit of being a good movie. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    A couple of modestly effective shocks lie in store. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Rob Nelson

    Even the most gullible auds will be challenged to buy into the picture, billed as "based on the actual case studies" and, in any case, rendered rather boring by writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi ("The Cavern"). Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The Fourth Kind is a pseudo-documentary like "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project." But unlike those two, which just forge ahead with their home video cameras, this one encumbers its flow with ceaseless reminders that it is a dramatization of real events. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.5 out of 5

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