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Grace is trying her best to bring up her two young children whilst awaiting her husband's return from the war. Three servants arrive to help her but it soon becomes apparent that there is much more to this trio that meets the eye...
...Amenabar's expert script rings enough changes on genre conventions to keep aficionados guessing....[A] terrific thriller...
...Plainly there is more going on here than meets the eye....Sit back and enjoy the deliciously clammy chills...
...An absorbing ghost story with a twist ending of SIXTH SENSE proportions... -- 4 out of 5 stars
...The movie has a busy, throttling intensity that takes off from the elegant fury of Kidman...
...A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom fit to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect....A delicious goose-pimpler...
...Elegantly and deliberately made, reeking of mood and creepiness, it relishes its atmosphere of genteel menace...
...Mr. Amenabar's command of the syntax of fright is impressive....Ms. Kidman embodies this unstable amalgam with a conviction that is in itself terrifying...
...Kidman is rage to the sixth power....Masterfully shot...