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Film critics, who were not shown When a Stranger Calls before it was released on Friday, got a look at it over the weekend and unloaded the expected barrage of negative reviews. In the Washington Post, Ann Hornaday wrote, "When a Stranger Calls has been remade -- with undistinguished if inoffensive results -- by Simon West, who is quickly becoming a reliable purveyor of Hollywood's dreckiest dreck." Jason Anderson in the Toronto Globe & Mail suggested that the 1979 original was imitative enough in its own right. "That this remake is perfunctory is hardly surprising but it needn't have been quite so dull," he wrote. Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe predicted: "Audiences are bound to exit Stranger booing, knowing full well the movie belongs on their do-not-call list." |
