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The Door Reviews

Visually, there's an elegance to "The Door" that feels both a virtue and a limitation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2013

Only cinemagoers who've enjoyed the cringe-worthy cine-sadism of watching train wrecks like Tommy Wiseau's The Room and Plan 9 from Outer Space could and should embrace this turd.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 23, 2012

Without make up or any adornments, the haggard Helen Mirren cooks, cleans and growls her way through this intimate, well-handled two-hander opposite the equally able Martina Gedeck.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2012

This film is a failure on a catastrophic level.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2012

An absorbing and complex character drama, but one that's difficult to connect to at times.

There's something quite haunting about the relationship between the two women: in some surprising ways, this is a determinedly unsentimental work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2012

Seems like a creative miscalculation by all concerned. The dialogue is clumsy in translation, the great director Istvn Szab seems to have lost his subtlety and his eye for performance

Full Review | Jul 14, 2012

The film has a formality and stilted quality about it that is distancing

Mirren and Gedeck shine but stirring Hungarian drama has its faults.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2012

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Jan 25, 2015

Could do so much more

jordansteel
Sep 14, 2018

Movie is frustrating.

dlmyst-29813
Oct 31, 2020

Engaging Setting - Bad Execution

Oct 27, 2014

What have i just watched?

iamtherobotman
Oct 24, 2015

What a waste of potential!

song_of_rainbow
Sep 24, 2023

Skip this one!

Oct 4, 2020

My October horrorthon is off to a bad start.

BA_Harrison
Oct 1, 2022

Surprisingly good!

Nov 22, 2014
Jun 23, 2015

Excellent premise

May 21, 2017

Needs a sequel

littlechicktle
Nov 9, 2014

Good idea, poor execution.

Sep 5, 2020
Nov 13, 2020

Whats that secret you're keeping?

Jun 13, 2015

Great Movie! (potential spoiler)

sellzmktng01
Nov 17, 2014

Great film for fans of horror.

kylereloaded

Probably the film Nightworld 2017 was based on

May 18, 2023

Fun creepy low budget horror

Feb 3, 2022

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