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NUMBERS
Box Office: $95,308,367
VHS Rentals: $22,720,000
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CONSENSUS
Elevated by Fincher's directorial talent and Foster's performance, Panic Room is a well-crafted, above-average thriller.
CAST & CREW
Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto
Directed by David Fincher
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SYNOPSIS
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 52 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 29, 2002
Video: Sep 17, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Suspense, Thriller, New York City
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Panic Room Site
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 "Foster and Whitaker are especially fine. She is a lioness, protecting her cub, and he a reluctant villain, incapable of controlling his crew."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "A collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films."
-- Robert Wilonsky, NEW TIMES
"If the plot seems a bit on the skinny side, that’s because Panic Room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"Very well made, but doesn't generate a lot of tension."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Mais um momento inspirado de David Fincher."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"Panic Room fits nicely within the trajectory of the elegant career arc Fincher has already plotted."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"What the audience feels is exhaustion, from watching a movie that is dark (dark green, to be exact), sour, bloody and mean."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"It's a pleasurable revelation to see Foster feel out a role, both emotively and physically, with the well-marshaled gusto that she does here."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"It's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"A crackerjack genre piece; what Panic Room aims for it accomplishes with deadly precision and edge-of-your-seat mastery."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"A perfect, flawless, suspense filled thriller that presents a story of survival so simple and so realistic that there is no way you'll be able to turn your head away from the screen."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"The script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis, but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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"What goes on for the 110 minutes of "Panic Room" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Features Fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Gets better after Foster leaves that little room."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Defies logic, the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it. But darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Viewers willing to settle for a refried thriller might be mildly
intrigued...but anyone who's seen its superior models can't
help but be disappointed."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"A sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times, but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances."
-- Michael B. Scrutchin, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"A "Home Alone" film that is staged like "Rosemary's Baby," but is not as well-conceived as either of those films."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"borrows a bit from the classics "Wait Until Dark" and "Extremities" ... But in terms of its style, the movie is in a class by itself."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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FRESH 67%
Avg. Rating: 6.7/10 |
"What's surprising about this traditional thriller, moderately successful but not completely satisfying, is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies, and he gives none to the audience."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"A solidly constructed, entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration."
-- Jane Sumner, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"It confirms Fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"[Fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Director David Fincher and writer David Koepp can't sustain it."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Flawed but riveting, it won't be everyone's cocktail of choice, but if you can suspend disbelief long enough, you'll get a whopping good wallop without the hangover."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
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"The movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times, give you a few laughs, and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks, even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Panic Room" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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