62
Metascore
29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrA solidly crafted, suspensefully written, powerfully acted little juggernaut.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyA good, old-fashioned suspenser.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOverly familiar material, even well done, cannot be made more intrinsically interesting than it is. Not even by Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerWere it not for these performances (Blanchett, Ribisi, Swank, Reeves), The Gift would be fairly negligible.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA creepily effective button-pusher that owes a bit to the original "Cape Fear" both in Sam Raimi's ruthless direction and Keanu Reeves's unexpectedly robust performance as the most violent redneck peckerwood in a steamy Georgia town.
- 50Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachOutside of a strong (and largely misused) cast and an abundance of moody atmosphere, there's precious little to recommend this exploitative mess.
- 50Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldA clumsy, heavy-handed and unnecessarily sordid occult thriller that somehow has managed to generate a big pre-release buzz.
- 40TNT RoughCutAndy KleinTNT RoughCutAndy KleinIn terms of cleverly hidden exposition, this ain't "The Sixth Sense."
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenSo many logical questions go unasked in The Gift, which, ultimately, is the movie's downfall. Mark this package as Return to Sender.
- 40Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonThe bottom line, however, is that cheap and unoriginal as The Gift may be, it sucks you in.