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The Call


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Hollywood Reporter
For the most part a tense, extreme-jeopardy thriller that delivers the intended goods.
Variety
There's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish Law and Order rerun.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The film is at once shamelessly transparent, manipulative, and far-fetched, and impossibly suspenseful. You'll want to take ...
The Boston Globe
Maybe Anderson wants to sell out, but he's not very good at it.
The New York Times
An effectively creepy thriller about a 911 operator and a young miss in peril, The Call is a model of low-budget filmmaking.
USA Today
The Call cribs from so many other psychological thrillers that it might as well be called The Girl With the Lovely Bones Cel...
Chicago Sun-Times
A sputtering, so-so B thriller with a neat hook but very little personality.
San Francisco Chronicle
If it were any more intense would require a complete physical and medical clearance for admission into the theater.
Los Angeles Times
The material has the mild impact of a special episode of a network crime series, with Eklund's villain a figure of mannered ...
Washington Post
Can't someone come up with screenwriting software that signals when a script has made the fatal slip from hyped-up suspense ...
New York Post
I'll say one thing for The Call: Its ending is actually a bit of a surprise. Just when you think it couldn't get any stupide...
Entertainment Weekly
If you're going to watch a movie in which two people talk on the phone for most of the film, it's not the worst thing in the...
New York Daily News
Let's call The Call what it is: high quality trash that both diminishes and is redeemed by all the talents who have deigned ...
Joblo
But- like I wrote earlier, 2/3rds of a really solid horror film is better than none, and on that level, I still have to give...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Richard D'Ovidio
Studio: Sony Pictures
Cast: Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut

Release: March 15, 2013
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