The Others

4.11
    The Others
    2001

    Synopsis

    Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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    Cast

    • Nicole KidmanGrace Stewart
    • Christopher EcclestonCharles Stewart
    • Alakina MannAnne Stewart
    • James BentleyNicholas Stewart
    • Fionnula FlanaganMrs. Bertha Mills
    • Eric SykesMr. Edmund Tuttle
    • Elaine CassidyLydia
    • Renée AshersonOld Lady
    • Gordon ReidAssistant
    • Keith AllenMr. Marlish

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Rolling Stone

      Only some bumpy, arid passages in the script keep The Others out of the master class occupied by the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and, my favorite, 1961's "The Innocents."
    • 90

      Salon

      An elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for not relying on computer effects.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.
    • 89

      Austin Chronicle

      A spare, discomfiting score and uniformly excellent performances, and you have a quiet little masterpiece of dark and chilling beauty.
    • 88

      Miami Herald

      A fiendishly subtle horror movie, a goosebump-inducing exercise in suspense that uses your own imagination to scare you silly.
    • 80

      Slate

      A minor-key ghost story with major jolts.
    • 80

      New Times (L.A.)

      If you like being scared, you should have fun. Bring a date to hold hands with.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      In drawing out his effects, Amenabar is a little too confident that style can substitute for substance. As our suspense was supposed to be building, our impatience was outstripping it.

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