the movie marches on in grim, silly lockstep to its themes: a compendium of jump-scare terrors almost exhaustively heard and seen, but rarely calibrated to make you feel much of anything at all
the cast is great, the milieu is vivid, the images are polished and the atmosphere is effectively moody; by the time the movie reaches its poetic, elusive ending, "Things Heard & Seen" has lost most of its early promise, becoming frustratingly flat
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's failure to generate suspense becomes problematic during a second half that settles into standard psycho-spouse thriller rhythms with some half-assed ghost-story and feminist elements tossed in
like many Netflix originals, "Things Heard And Seen" is the cinematic equivalent of a mass-market paperback, neither good enough to haunt the viewer nor bad enough to haunt the resumes of its cast and crew
it's an adequate haunted-house film; while "Things Heard & Seen" is not in the same league as "A Quiet Place" and Charlie Kaufman's oddball Netflix thriller, it has a spooky atmosphere and an appealingly slow boil that will liven up a Saturday night
it doesn't have jump scares a la the "Conjuring" movies or loud crashes like the "Insidious" chapters, but it's an intriguing story about a faltering marriage and a house built on a foundation of lies, with the spirit world lingering just within reach
an overwrought horror starring an overqualified cast; though there's an undeniably entertaining element..as we watch an amazingly talented cast of familiar names somehow keeping straight faces while slogging through the cartoonishly bad material
a moody Netflix ghost story fails to haunt; Amanda Seyfried is a woman coming undone, thanks to a supernatural entity and a toxic husband, in a strangely inert combination of horror and drama
"Things Heard & Seen" is less than the sum of its potentially intriguing parts. Rather than interweaving domestic drama, supernatural mumbo-jumbo and campus naughtiness, Pulcini and Berman.. squandering scares and undermining the momentum of the story
"Things Heard & Seen" does offer a couple of creepy moments and a moody atmosphere; It aspires to be a mystery but can't wring any tension to fuel it. Netflix's latest horror-thriller brings minor chills but few thrills
by Johnny Oleksinski [New York Post ]
by Richard Roeper [Chicago Sun-Times ]
by Charles Bramesco [The Guardian ]
