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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- There simply aren’t enough scares to build tension throughout.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberCaruso’s direction is slick and fluid enough, and gifted cinematographer Rogier Stoffers (Quills, School of Rock) makes the most of the house’s dark, eerie corners. But the performances are highly variable. Beckinsale delivers the goods, but Mel Raido as her impatient husband David never generates much sympathy.
- 50The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerDisappointments has the strange confidence of a much slicker, more decisive movie, and all of its sort-ofs don’t add up to much.
- 40VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonThere is more mood than matter to be sampled in “The Disappointments Room,” a spooky psychological thriller — or, perhaps, a psychological thriller with spooks — that is initially intriguing but ultimately, unfortunately, lives down to its title.
- 20Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe script telegraphs things, but also often descends into incoherence. It tries to be too many things at once, and ends up being nothing.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe Disappointments Room lives (and dies) up to its name.
- 15TheWrapRobert AbeleTheWrapRobert AbeleNamed as if it knew its destiny, The Disappointments Room brings together those horror movie standbys that just can’t quit each other — a creepy old home and a troubled family — for some truly convoluted, non-scary, and execrable psychological mishegoss surrounding a hidden chamber and the noxious historical shame it holds.