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The Mist

2007

Frank Darabont

Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, André Braugher ...

6.4

35,784

Horror. Mystery David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are “things” lurking in the mist…deadly, horrifying things…creatures not of this world. Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together…but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"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"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"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."	NEU
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"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"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"[It] gradually mutates into something more unexpected (...) It's unsurprising that some of the effects are less than spectacular, but the ensemble cast is never less than convincing."	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"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'."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Ambrose Empire	"It’s well worth your time (...) This is one of the best horror movies of the last few years (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"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."	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"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"	POS

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