Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Maybe you will love The Interview - if you can ever see the movie - as much as some people hate or fear it. But if you're hoping for any cogent political satire here, then the joke's on you.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's certainly smutty-and infantile. Maybe half the jokes miss. But it is a truly savage work.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The Interview fails to live up to the hype, floundering as a rowdy comedy as it grows duller by the minute.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Like their affable, ignorant characters, Rogen and Franco seem in way over their heads with "The Interview."

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
That something so carefully slapdash and happily juvenile actually resulted in cyber-sabotage and threats of violence is, in itself, an enormous kind of joke. Too bad it's the biggest one here.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The Interview has the comic batting average of a mediocre-to-average Saturday Night Live sketch .

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
"The Interview" struggles to really illuminate anything about the stranger-than-fiction Orwellian nightmare that is North Korea, but its attempt is admirable. It deserves to be seen.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
This is what all the fuss was about?

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bluntly funny and ever-so-slightly sweet.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Te best satire provokes and even outrages, and Rogen, Franco and Goldberg certainly succeed on that score.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Hate to say it, but this film ain't half the satire it could have been.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out New York
The Interview confirms Rogen as the most ambitious mainstream comedian in Hollywood.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The film is not a dangerous weapon, or a tool for anti-Korean propaganda. It does kill, but with comedy.

Name : Aisha Harris / Alias : Slate
If you like your dictator mockery served on a sharper, smarter dish, you should probably just do what everyone else seems to be doing, and rewatch Team America: World Police.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's stupid. It's in bad taste. It impossible. I know all that. But Rogen's instinct to try anything for giggles and sticking it to dictatorial assholes is worth fighting for. Screw Kim if he can't take a joke.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
There's a whip-smart, pointed comedy in "The Interview." Unfortunately it's buried in there. Really deep.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Everyone here is in way over his or her head.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
About as funny as a communist food shortage, and just as protracted.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Imagine "Harold and Kumar Go to North Korea," or "Bill and Ted's Excellent North Korean Adventure" or even "The Road to Pyongyang" starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. You get the idea.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
What's wrong with The Interview is that it doesn't know how to be the singeing comedy it wants.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Characterizing it as satire elevates the creative execution of the film's very silly faux assassination of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un far beyond what it merits.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : AV Club
Much of the film is devoted to the hit-and-miss (but strangely moving) riffing between the leading men.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
Its lesson is that American pop culture is inescapable, our great achievement and most popular export, the weapon we wield abroad and the glue trap we struggle with at home.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A dangerous comedy about a dangerous regime shouldn't be safe for suburban dads.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
While The Interview never slacks in its mission to tell jokes, it's such a messy and meandering movie that it never quite lands as a satire of politics or the media or anything else.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
Offers a few moments of casual brilliance but otherwise trips itself up in the threads of its contrived absurdity.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
In their third film together, Franco and Rogen have a terrific banter and an underlay of affection. This kind of rapport is rare.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The remarkably dismal quality is emblematic of the mind-set that brought the movie, and its attendant crises, into being.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
In celebrating this legendary pacifist, Gibson and company ennoble the hell out of violence.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
A movie that reaches out toward the idea of goodness in the world. And whether you or I like Gibson as a person or not, it's no one's place to deny his reach.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
There aren't many shades of grey in 'Hacksaw Ridge', but it follows through its purpose with vigour, confidence and swagger

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Gibson's forceful comeback is a violent drama about pacifism that succeeds in combining horror with grace.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
It immerses you in the violent madness of war - and, at the same time, it roots its drama in the impeccable valor of a man who, by his own grace, refuses to have anything to do with war.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Perhaps for someone who never saw The Blair Witch Project, this might represent an adequate scary movie.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
Blair Witch follows the original's beats so precisely that at times it seems the film is more eager to elicit memories of its predecessor than to stand on its own at all.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Even if there were no witches in the world, these idiots would probably get taken out crossing a busy street.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The Blair Witch Project should be remembered for its uncanny and sometimes deceptive knack for selling itself.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
Tedious in its early going and all but unwatchable in its final half-hour, the movie feels interminable at a barely-feature-length 89 minutes.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
At a relatively compact 89 minutes, the picture still feels about 20 minutes too long thanks to all the repetition of familiar elements.

Name : Mark Caro / Alias : Chicago Tribune
What becomes especially impressive about Blair Witch is how relentlessly it sticks to its vision.

Name : Susan Wloszczyna / Alias : USA Today
Blair Witch oozes spellbinding primal fear!

Name : Mary Elizabeth Williams / Alias : Salon.com
It's been a long time since a movie did so much by showing so little.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Wingard and Barrett aren't trying to reinvent the wail here, which is mostly a good thing.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Was I supposed to be scared by this thing?

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
A significantly more accomplished and entertaining sequel than 2000's woeful cash-in Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, [this] nonetheless reps something of a missed opportunity.

Name : Jeff Giles / Alias : Newsweek
Heather's shaky video work can induce motion sickness - it looks like combat footage as she bolts through the woods - but just try turning away.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As a manifestation of multimedia synergy, it's pretty spooky.

Name : Bob Longino / Alias : Atlanta Journal-Constitution
[A] creepy tale of witchcraft, murders and ghost sightings.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Running and screaming may be essential to a lot of horror movies, but as "Blair Witch" shows, they're not scary in themselves. For that, you need the stuff between the running and screaming.

Name : Kevin Maynard / Alias : Mr. Showbiz
It might be the scariest movie ever made!

Name : Jeffrey Bloomer / Alias : Slate
Barrett and Wingard slavishly reprise the beats of the original movie and suffer gravely by comparison.

Name : Desson Thomson / Alias : Washington Post
Simple but devastatingly effective.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
A thrill ride that's as terrifying as it is no-nonsense.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : Slate
I could tell you the story - give away every detail - and The Blair Witch Project would still freeze your blood.

Name : Michael Gingold / Alias : Time Out
Emerges as satisfying in its own right and pretty damn scary.

Name : Steve Tilley / Alias : Toronto Sun
While Blair Witch does have a few moments of tension and dread, it simply doesn't recapture the once-in-a-lifetime terror that made the original film so unforgettable.

Name : Ben Travers / Alias : indieWIRE
Compared to the ill-fated "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 - the first follow-up which was rushed to market for financial reasons - this new iteration still comes across as downright inspiring.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Blair Witch" comes to the party very late and very tired, and it doesn't improve from there.

Name : Bruce Westbrook / Alias : Houston Chronicle
If you can handle its unconventional approach, you won't feel as if you're seeing a film so much as witnessing a living nightmare.

Name : John Hartl / Alias : Seattle Times
Using the most modest means, Sanchez and Myrick manage to tell a compelling story, create recognizable characters and hold our attention even when there's literally nothing on the screen.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
Pic comes across as smart without feeling manipulative.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
By sticking so slavishly to the original Blair Witch film's template, the result is a dull retread rather than a full-on reinvention, enlarging the cast numbers this time but sticking to the same basic beats.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
What can anyone say about The Blair Witch Project that hasn't been trumpeted from a thousand Web sites already?

Name : J. Hoberman / Alias : Village Voice
Although the payoff is ambiguous, the experience remains in the mind. It's an absolutely restrained and truly frightening movie.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Wingard was in high school when "The Blair Witch Project" came out, so he's checking something off his personal list here. Everyone else moved on from "Blair Witch," with good reason, a long time ago.

Name : Tom Charity / Alias : Time Out
The actors never put a foot wrong; the video diary form allows no artifice, so that as terror mounts, the dread is infectious.

Name : Michael Nordine / Alias : Village Voice
Blair Witch's comparatively maximalist approach shows too much and scares too little.

Name : Paul Tatara / Alias : CNN.com
Whenever night falls, the movie takes off, but in a slow creep, with all your childhood fears of the dark suddenly revealing themselves as absolutely reasonable.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
At a time when digital techniques can show us almost anything, The Blair Witch Project is a reminder that what really scares us is the stuff we can't see. The noise in the dark is almost always scarier than what makes the noise in the dark.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The scariest shots, from someone's little Hi-8 camcorder, document the students losing their bearings, giving way to panic and finally falling victim, though off screen, to some ineffably, unphotographably evil presence.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
There's a sharp division between the chill of "I think I just saw something!" and the confusion of "I don't know what the hell I just saw!" and "Blair Witch" often falls on the wrong side.

Name : Peter Brunette / Alias : Film.com
The film is a faux documentary, made by two first-time filmmakers.

Name : Janet Maslin / Alias : New York Times
A most inventive departure from standard horror fare.

Name : Lloyd Rose / Alias : Washington Post
The Blair Witch Project" is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Not the goriest, the grossest, the weirdest, the eeriest, the sickest, the creepiest or the slimiest. Just flat out the scariest.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
You don't need buckets of moolah and a zillion computer-generated effects to get a rise out of an audience. Just a little imagination, a little suggestive terror, will do quite nicely.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
It's nothing more than a sophisticated clone of the original, and it really overdoes the shaky-camera thing - even more than in some of the worst found-footage movies The Blair Witch Project spawned.

Name : Kevin Thomas / Alias : Los Angeles Times
In short, the film is a clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less, and a terrific calling card for its fledgling filmmakers, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Sanchez and Myrick deserve credit not only for attempting something different, but for succeeding so brilliantly at it!

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
Blair Witch nods to the first film but never rediscovers its power.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Wingard's movie, for all its abundant mischief, doesn't trust the power of its own illusion. You can see these woods a lot more clearly now, and what you see is that you've been here before.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
Sanchez and Myrick's film knows that what's not seen frightens more easily that what is, and that the imagination's thoughts of what might have happened generally horrify on a deeper level than knowing what did.

Name : Ernest Hardy / Alias : Film.com
The great power of the film lies in its simplicity, in the slow-building tension and psychological melt-downs.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
At least a third of "Blair Witch" consists of people running through the woods with flashlights, shouting out each other's names. A little of this goes a long way.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
A cunningly conceived and crafted exercise in suggestibility and terror.

Name : Brian Tallerico / Alias : RogerEbert.com
The set-up is the same, and while that felt fresh in the first film, it now just kind of drains the piece of tension because we know no one is making it out alive.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : Washington Post
"Blair Witch" runs only eight minutes past the original, yet it feels about a half-hour longer.

Name : Gemma Files / Alias : Film.com
A movie which scared the crap out of everybody from Cannes to Sundance, and which is definitely worth the hype.

Name : Jonathan Rosenbaum / Alias : Chicago Reader
What gives the film much of its force and its mounting sense of queasy uncertainty is its narrative method, which ensures that we know no more about the proceedings than the characters do.

Name : Jay Boyar / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
The simplest effects are the most effective "effects." That's the horrific lesson of micro-budget masterpiece of modern horror, The Blair Witch Project.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rather than exploring new ground, it sends us down familiar terrain, provoking shrieks for the mercy of a quick ending.

Name : Mark Kennedy / Alias : Associated Press
This sequel gets progressively messy while The Blair Witch Project grew progressively taut.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Belated "official" sequel to 1999 hit updates technology but repeats the original's shocks - only much louder and lamer

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Without real innovation or story evolution, "Blair Witch" becomes a trip down a rabbit hole of misery and suffering. Life's too short - especially in these woods.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Blair Witch manages to strike a balance between pleasing the fans of the 1999 found-footage film and working as a Friday night at the multiplex, mainly by sticking to the principle that what you don't see will always be scarier.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It administers its jolts with impeccable timing and may well satisfy those who felt swindled by the hype surrounding the much-more-suggestive original.

Name : Susan Stark / Alias : Detroit News
A picture like The Blair Witch Project just takes your breath away.

Name : Jami Bernard / Alias : New York Daily News
The very crudeness of the film stock and technique contribute mightily to the feeling that things are out of control, disoriented and possibly subject to unnatural laws.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
With nothing new to add to the "Blair Witch" mythos, this is one found footage movie that should have been left lost in the woods.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
The thought that Blair Witch Project just might be real makes it much scarier than any of the teen horror flicks that have stumbled along in recent years.

Name : Jonathan Foreman / Alias : New York Post
The creepiest and most original horror film since John Carpenter's classic Halloween.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Blair Witch is the most dangerous film in captivity. It's a no-excuses horror show with an emotional wallop like falling headlong into a bear trap.

Name : Desmond Ryan / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
You can dismiss The Blair Witch Project as a trick. Or you can give in to the treat and savor that rarest of accomplishments in a field notorious for tedium and repetition - an original horror movie.

Name : Bill Zwecker / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
All in all, Blair Witch was quite satisfying and made me think: This is what the first sequel to the original film should have accomplished.

Name : Andrew Sarris / Alias : New York Observer
Where is the suspense? Where is the involvement? Where is the identification?

Name : Kirk Honeycutt / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The viewer never glimpses anything more than the shadow of a clever movie.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
I have seen the new face of movie horror and its name is The Blair Witch Project, a groundbreaker in fright that reinvents scary for the new millennium.

Name : Edward Guthmann / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
There's no denying the terror in The Blair Witch Project. It's fierce, it's palpable and it gets deep under the skin.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
The acting and filmmaking are too crude to make you care about what happens . even though you know pretty much exactly what that will be.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Barrett and Wingard guide us on a slightly different path, but it's clear early on that the destination will be all too familiar.