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83
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wide-eyed Sara Paxton and hipster-bespectacled Pat Healy play the joint's only two employees, working each other into a lather of what turns out to be well-founded hysteria. Kelly McGillis is a surprise treat as a grouchy medium.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Ghost movies like this, depending on imagination and craft, are much more entertaining than movies that scare you by throwing a cat at the camera.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter
The result is a largely entertaining picture with too few (and late-arriving) scares to satisfy the multiplex crowd, but one that will please many die-hard genre aficionados.
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70
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NPR Jeannette Catsoulis
West's throwback style and disdain for excess allows his characters to shine.
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70
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Movieline Michelle Orange
Without a strong story to dance with, all of those fabulous tracking shots, lovingly uncanny art direction details and flickering shafts of light can make The Innkeepers feel more like an exercise in craft than a scary movie.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The humor and chops are there, but the story isn't quite.
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60
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Luke and Claire are guilty, above all, of being dumb and bored. Even their interest in the ghost that may dwell in the dark corners of the Pedlar seems tepid and lacking in conviction. The movie, clever and rigorous though it is, feels that way too.
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50
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Washington Post
It's not going to shake up the fright-flick world one bit, but The Innkeepers may earn affection from genre-lovers whose memory reaches back to before "The Blair Witch Project."
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40
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A well-shot but generically dull disappointment.
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38
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be.
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