Winchester's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
"What 'Winchester' lacks in originality its creators amply make up for in execution."
Empire
"Despite an intriguing premise, 'Winchester' misses the mark. Its anti-gun message is a shot in the right direction, but lazy fright tactics and a contradictory ending leave it firing blanks."
Los Angeles Times
"No matter how many non-sequitur jolts they manage to squeeze into these jumpy proceedings, the ability to sustain a sense of dread, to create tension that lasts beyond the immediate moment, seems dispiritingly beyond their grasp."
The Wrap
"Whichever way you wield it, 'Winchester' is a misfire."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Mirren always brings a touch of class, of course, even to deluxe schlock like this. But Clarke is something of a blank leading man while the secondary characters are mostly pale phantoms sleepwalking through a thinly drawn plot."
New York Times
"Despite the typically elevating presence of Helen Mirren, this super-silly feature (the fifth from the Australian brothers Peter and Michael Spierig) stubbornly resists being classed up."
The Telegraph
"The film has about five sets and they never feel like they connect together, but this is less an attempt at disorienting the viewer than simply cutting corners; the grisly, overdone lighting, meanwhile, makes you want to hide behind your fingers for all the wrong reasons."
The Guardian
"A staggeringly pointless supernatural non-chiller featuring some very tiresome jump scares."
Rolling Stone
"It shouldn't happen to anyone, much less a Dame ? not a movie of such barreling awfulness as 'Winchester', which strands the great Helen Mirren in a gothic house of cards that collapses on actors and audiences alike."