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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's no time wasted and no showy effects to detract from the situation -- just sheer tension.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoA welcome change from horror movies like "Hostel' and "Saw" and their mind-numbing gore and violence.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsIf you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.
- 75Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneOne of the most intelligent and unnerving horror films in recent memory.
- 70VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonRomania-set scare-fest deploys the full cinematic vocabulary of creepy sounds and hostile intruders.
- The movie is scarier if you know nothing about it going in. It has no larger agenda. It’s not an allegory, a satire or a commentary. It’s just a modestly relentless suspense picture that propels its characters through a series of dreamscapes.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe characters in Them are paper-thin: They're mere props to be manipulated by co-directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud, who want nothing more than to scare you sh--less in what, with its nonstop chase sequences and booby traps, often comes off as a live-action video game.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanYou'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe ending underscores the old cliche about the banality of evil but getting there is meant to be the whole fun. For some people at least.
- 38PremierePremiereFor a while, it works, until it suddenly decides to abandon the "what you don't see is scarier than what you do see" for a ridiculous and ultimately insulting explanatory ending.