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The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black

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Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds
Feb 03, 2012
PG-13, 1 hr. 34 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Shaun Dooley, David Burke, Liz White, Sophie Stuckey, Misha Handley, Roger Allam, Mary Stockley
Director: James Watkins
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Theater Release: Feb 03, 2012
DVD Release: May 22, 2012
Synopsis: A young lawyer (Radcliffe) travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorner woman is terrorizing the locals. -- (C) CBS Films

Critic Reviews

  • Bruce Diones, New Yorker
    The moody, beautifully composed production raises it above the norm.
  • Rex Reed, New York Observer
    It takes quite a time before the pieces of a poisonous puzzle appear, and when they do, they don't always fall into place with clarity.
  • Tom Huddleston, Time Out
    'The Woman in Black' is old-fashioned, ornate, imposing, occasionally creaky - and possessed of more than a few enjoyably nasty surprises.
  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews
    The star's job description is that he be able to react convincingly to a variety of supernatural events and to endure being covered in mud. He has difficulty with neither.
  • Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
    Haunted house movies basically live and die by their atmospherics and by the consequences to those poor mortals who come too close to the premises, and The Woman in Black delivers on both counts.
  • Adam Graham, Detroit News
    The Woman in Black is your standard-issue ghost story, gussied up in period garb to make it look like a prestige picture.
  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
    None of it's new, but it's fun particularly because - like those Hammer films of yore - it peoples its great sets with solid actors.
  • Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
    A hoot of an old-fashioned British horror film in which being under 10 years old is not a good thing.
  • Rafer Guzman, Newsday
    A disappointing post-Potter debut from Radcliffe, barely breathing in this musty, creaky chiller.
  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
    Though Radcliffe occasionally seems too stiffly callow to be completely convincing in this grown-up role, the movie is a proficient thriller with a potential appeal beyond the star's fan-girl audience.
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