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Dear David

2023

Justin Long, Andrea Bang, Augustus Prew, René Escobar Jr. ...

Horror A man is haunted by the ghost of a boy named David, who is trying to kill him.

	Author	Review
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"It’s off to an amazing start, but towards the end, something changes that did not work for me (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Deirdre Crimmins IGN	"'Dear David' tries its best to scare, but it never quite brings the spookiness it promises. It suffers from trying to do a bit too much with the living characters and not enough with the dead ones"	NEG
United States	Matt Donato Paste Magazine	"Everything feels muted, from the narrative themes to the leap-at-the-screen frights, which isn’t the experience you want from an October release about undead children tormenting online bullies"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"One of 2017’s most viral Twitter threads becomes one of 2023’s worst horror movies"	NEG
United States	Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"'Dear David' is branded content—uninspired and hollow to a fault—and perhaps that’s even more disturbing than a five-year-old internet ghost story (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"A boring paint-by-numbers ghost movie, a jumble of tropes borrowed from movies like “The Ring,” and a poor facsimile of its influences"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"'Dear David' relegates its intensity to internal character conflict, making for a rather sleepy affair. Those looking for genuine frights are better off revisiting the original viral thread. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kristy Puchko Mashable	"Welcome to the biggest disappointment of Halloween 2023 (...) I'm sorry to report that 'Dear David' lacks the stomach-churning suspense of its origins, delivering instead a painfully mediocre ghost story."	NEG
United States	Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"None of it feels frightening or interesting enough to carry a whole movie, with a story constantly trying (and failing) to convince you that it has the goods to keep your interest"	NEG

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