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Suffers from a surfeit of superficiality.

The film struggles to create the emotional resonance needed to connect with vulnerable and troubled characters.

Alas, the writing lets both film and actors down tremendously.

Closing The Ring delivers romance on an epic scale and seems destined to be the pride of some people's DVD collections, but beneath the gloss and the carefully crafted performances, it's lacking something.

A committed but controlled piece of documentary film-making that makes its case in a sober, factual manner.

Watching Panic is like tracing your finger around the blueprint of a roller coaster ride, instead of actually riding it.

The film is elevated by a superb turn from Mistry.

A painful watch.

Put simply, this supposedly new direction for the franchise will very soon grow old, as a franchise once famed for its innovations is reduced to becoming a deeply conservative product.

Director Wes Craven... brings just the right atmosphere of tongue in cheek and plain old fear to the proceedings.

Beyond acting as a name-dropping, tongue-in-cheek gateway drug to the genre, this entry targets toxic fandoms.

When murder-most-foul becomes murder-most-samey, goose bumps flatten.

The humour is never allowed to knock the fear.

The film is neither as bland, nor as silly as you would suppose.

The plot does not stand up to scrutiny and is so full of holes it should sink to the bottom of the Everglades. It doesn't, because it has style.