Rotten
Asylum had promise. But it's bad enough to make one wonder just who had the loose screws -- the characters, or the people who filmed them?
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Overview
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
36%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Patrick McGrath's screenplay, based on his novel, has moments big and small, delivered in appropriate dollops of awfulness.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
It's a movie you fall for or you don't, and like Stella, I am not ashamed I did.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
Once characters' actions lose credibility, it's hard to empathize with them, no matter how well the roles are played.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
The film, with its uniformly terrific cast, stern Gothic overtones and steady but measured pacing, is a crisp, old-fashioned delight, eschewing cheap tricks for repeated tiny pricks of unease that work up to a continuous gnawing dread.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
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