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The Raven

2012

James McTeigue

John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson ...

5.6

6,769

Thriller A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Mr. Cusack works himself into a lather trying to reconcile the contradictory parts of an incoherent character. In, I am sorry to say, an incoherent movie"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A serial killer/Gothic drama/love story hybrid, it has some nicely mounted atmospheric scenes and strong acting from John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"The Raven is a squawking, silly picture that never takes flight"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[The effects] create a problem of proportion for a period film like this, where personality and atmosphere should create suspense; extreme violence is unnecessary (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It runs out of steam in the final 10 minutes, but there's some gruesome drama and Cusack is on decent form (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matt Mueller IndieWire	"Cusack’s good work, and that of a supporting cast that also includes Brendan Gleeson (...) is undone by a script that loses interest in finding thrills in its literary premise (...) in favour of so-so production-line shocks"	NEU
United States	Andy Klein Los Angeles Times	"It’s one thing to mess with the facts; it’s another to include anachronisms that should set off an alarm for all but the tin-eared"	NEG

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