Separation

There are no believable characters, no rising tension, and no scares in this Insidious meets Kramer vs. Kramer.

[A] dull and misogynistic affair that imagines multiple types of women as malevolent fiends who terrorize supposedly sympathetic men.

Despite an imaginative setup, Separation can't divorce itself from a lack of scares, tension, and underbaked storytelling that prevents emotional resonance.

[T]he film squanders its intriguing set-up and terrific performances by devolving into familiar genre tropes.

[T]his bargain-basement thriller approaches both its jack-in-the-box scares and its domestic scenario with the negligence of an unfit parent...

The characters are flat, the themes shallow, and the emotional catharsis is stilted in every scene.

'Separation' is a good movie ... to stay away from.

The only separation that exists here is the vast one between good and bad filmmaking, and Separation falls decidedly on the side of the latter.

Separation could have either gone for a nuanced family drama that happened to have ghosts or it could've been an over the top haunted house film with a plethora of unique ghouls and wild twist, but instead it shoots for the middle.

Promising horror pic that can't deliver the goods.