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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 33The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe film might amuse some, especially fans of Alfred Hitchcock, but is likely to annoy almost everyone else.
- 30VarietyVarietyWhat needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.
- The biggest mystery, perhaps, is why accomplished actors such as Molina and Hope Davis agreed to be in this.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceNodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisProstitutes are not the only things butchered in The Lodger, a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.
- 0New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierFilled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.