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Skeleton Key, The (2005) Movie Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

For anyone zombified by creaky thriller clichés, Skeleton is a fine little shot in the head....read the complete Skeleton Key, The (2005) review at Entertainment Weekly

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Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>

Perhaps I might have enjoyedThe Skeleton Keymore if I hadn't figured out its entire plot within the first ten minutes. This sweaty, gothic thriller, set in the bayous of Louisiana ("Just an hour away from town" as its heroine gently tells us), is a...read the complete Skeleton Key, The (2005) review at Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>

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Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)

No director yet has found the best use for Hudson, the role that will tap those terrifying and thrilling reserves that are just lying in wait. But Softley comes closer than anybody has....read the complete Skeleton Key, The (2005) review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)

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Village Voice (Jessica Winter)

Creaky in its mechanics and numbingly protracted, this is basement B horror that fancies itself a prestige chiller....read the complete Skeleton Key, The (2005) review at Village Voice (Jessica Winter)