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The Return

The past never dies. It kills.

2006 · 1h 25m · PG-13 Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by Asif Kapadia

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Overview

Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

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All reviews
15%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Adam Sussman's script is so thin you can see right through it.

Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh

It's gripping stuff and deeply enjoyable.

Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Rotten

[The Return is] more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.

Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten

Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten

This murky psychological horror effort is not likely to inspire a return.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

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