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MOVIE REVIEWS: THE MIST

The reviews for Frank Darabont's The Mist aren't half bad. In fact, that's what Manohla Dargis calls the movie itself in the New York Times -- not "half bad." She does indicate that the film is loaded with a lot of clichés and "that's too bad, because Mr. Darabont does some estimable work in The Mist." Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune concludes that the movie is "good and creepy." Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News regards it as a "fine, fatalistic freak show." But Claudia Puig in USA Today suggests that the movie "is more thought-provoking than frightening" (not that that's necessarily bad). Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post also indicates that the film is "more political allegory than horror movie." Leaving Kyle Smith the conservative among the nation's major critics, to conclude that it's "a pretentious left-wing monster movie."


21/11/2007