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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
There's a grim modern parable to be read into the dangerous effects of the gospel-preaching local crazy lady Mrs. Carmody (brilliantly played by a hellfire Marcia Gay Harden) on a congregation of the fearful. Read full review
While it's riveting throughout, The Mist is a bit bloated. Read full review
More thought-provoking than frightening. Its stubbornly cynical attitude makes it worth watching, more than the monsters or the impenetrable mist (which looks spewed from a fog machine) engulfing a small town in Maine. Read full review
More political allegory than horror movie. Read full review
The brutally ironic ending, I might add, won't make anybody very happy about having chosen The Mist for their evening's entertainment. Read full review
Less horrific than it is horribly didactic. Read full review
The Mist doesn't provoke further thought; it provokes active annoyance at being punished in the service of a pulp morality tale with pretensions. Read full review
Until the director Frank Darabont decides that he's saying something important instead of making a nifty horror movie, The Mist isn't half bad. Read full review
Much nastier and less genteel than his best-known Stephen King adaptations ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile"), Frank Darabont's screw-loose doomsday thriller works better as a gross-out B-movie than as a psychological portrait of mankind under siege, marred by one-note characterizations and a tone that veers wildly between snarky and hysterical. Read full review
If you have seen ads or trailers suggesting that horrible things pounce on people, and they make you think you want to see this movie, you will be correct. It is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the "Shawshank" and "Green Mile" track record, you will be sadly mistaken. Read full review
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… suspenseful, funny, political … Read full review