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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 77The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzWhile there are the requisite number of jump scares and red-herring narrative fake-outs, Berman and Pulcini – who are odd fits in the first place, given their decidedly non-genre filmography – zig where you expect them to zag.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThings Heard & Seen has the requisite horror-movie look (deep shades of brown and orange, low camera angles, repeated glimpses of effectively creepy paintings and haunting photographs, religious symbolism everywhere) and Norton in particular is a hoot as just the worst person in the world — but still, Things Heard & Seen should be neither of those things.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichBerman and Pulcini’s movie feels as if it’s more haunted by unrealized potential than anything else.
- 50The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeLike many Netflix originals, Things Heard And Seen is the cinematic equivalent of a mass-market paperback, neither good enough to haunt the viewer nor bad enough to haunt the résumés of its cast and crew.
- 50Slant MagazineChris BarsantiSlant MagazineChris BarsantiUltimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
- 50IGNEmily TannenbaumIGNEmily TannenbaumI couldn’t help but feel like Things Heard & Seen would have been a much better film if they stripped away its ghostly elements in favor of everyday horrors that Pulcini and Berman nailed so effectively in its second act.
- 50Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayWhile the cast is great, the milieu is vivid, the images are polished and the atmosphere is effectively moody, Things Heard & Seen fails to connect on a visceral level.
- 40The GuardianCharles BramescoThe GuardianCharles BramescoBerman and Pulcini bank on suspense, despite a queasy inevitability being the strongest thing this retread of the familiar has going for it.
- 40The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottRather than interweaving domestic drama, supernatural mumbo-jumbo and campus naughtiness, Pulcini and Berman lurch from one scene to the next, squandering scares and undermining the momentum of the story.