The Mist

"Creepy 'The Mist' avoids horror movie cliches (...) While it's riveting throughout, 'The Mist' is a bit bloated (...) The unexpected is part of what makes a movie like 'The Mist' satisfying" 

"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." 

"More political allegory than horror movie (...) I didn't care for a glib twist at the end, which seemed way out of character (...) And the movie could happily lose 20 minutes, maybe even 40" 

"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 (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"What is surprising is how he rebounds from his weak, awkwardly compressed opening to produce one of the scariest King films since Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'." 

"Darabont proves very much in his element during the pic’s harrowing midsection (...) But the film can’t sustain this momentum en route to a highly calculated ending that departs from King’s more ambiguous denouement to mostly shrug-worthy effect." 

"The bugs and such are gross enough — and yet so very handsome — in Frank Darabont’s nifty, unusually spry, and almost shockingly pessimistic low-budget adaptation"