64
Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickGenuinely creepy Southern Gothic thriller that once again proves that in horror movies, sometimes less is actually more.
- 80Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderIt's good old-fashioned rural gothic that would make Flannery O'Connor proud, with tricky switcheroos that keep shaking up our assumptions about what's going on.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAgainst all odds in heaven and hell, it creeped me out just fine.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIt's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner, and even if it's nonsense, its claws dig surprisingly deep.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaBlood-curdling stuff.
- 70Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonMay leave you more cold and stunned than enlightened.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonMost of Frailty is so good -- done in a low-key, realistic mood of genuine creepiness and dread -- that it doesn't need formula shocks.
- 60L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonAudiences are destined to debate the film's final scenes, where Hanley piles on plot twists, leading to a coda that turns a creepily ambiguous story about God and the terrifying power of paternal love into something closer to an X-File.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThere's a good little psychological thriller buried underneath all the manufactured shocks, in the story of a powerless child standing alone against a parent's mental illness.
- 50Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowGory but lifeless.