It's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
"If the horror sequences sometimes feel obvious, it?s perhaps because King deliberately leaned on those tropes. It?s power to scare, ultimately, is not as strong as its power to evoke the joys, confusions and fears of childhood, or its power to leave you wanting more."
The Telegraph
"All round, [Bill Skarsgård]'s a very successful reinvention of a classic villain, not quite doing all the film?s work as commandingly as Curry, but absolutely stoking your dread of his next appearance."
Entertainment Weekly
"It is essentially two movies. The better by far (and it?s very good) is the one that feels like a darker Stand by Me ? a nostalgic coming-of-age story about seven likable outcasts riding around on their bikes and facing their fears together."
Rolling Stone
"The full-length movie, however, can't match the trailers for sustained terror ? it runs a punishing two hours and 15 minutes (and it's only half of the novel). But 'It' works enough of the time to deliver on the promise of bad dreams."
The Hollywood Reporter
"'It' is a solid thriller that works best when it is most involved in its adolescent heroes' non-monster-related concerns. It will prove much more satisfying to King's legion of fans than Tower did."
Indiewire
"At times, the movie excels at portraying the dread of children forced to confront a world indifferent to their concerns. But no matter how many times Pennywise leaps out from unexpected places, it?s impossible to shake the feeling that we?ve been here many times before."
The Guardian
"The film interestingly shows us that non-supernatural violence, bullying and abuse has been normalised in this apparently picturesque town ? so a demonic clown is just something else to worry about. The problem is that almost everything here looks like route one scary-movie stuff that we have seen before: scary clowns, scary old houses, scary bathrooms."
Variety
"'It' looks poised to make a killing at the box office, but there?s a fundamental hollowness that haunts the film just as surely as the titular monster haunts this small town."