The Host

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, 25% Rotten Tomatometer Score
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    Cath ClarkeGuardian
    Somehow The Host manages to be both ridiculous and dull.
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    Monica CastilloRogerEbert.com
    There are simply not enough thrills in The Host to offset its pedestrian missteps.
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    Noel MurrayLos Angeles Times
    Director Andy Newbery - working from a script credited to four writers - makes the story look classy but can't find its beating heart.
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    Frank ScheckHollywood Reporter
    The pedestrian approach here simply proves tedious, which is no small achievement considering the utter craziness on display.
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    Carla HayCulture Mix
    The movie has so much of Psycho in it, that it's a blatant homage or ripoff, depending on your perspective.
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    Brian VinerDaily Mail (UK)
    It's all very silly, not especially well-written, and any echoes of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Psycho, clearly an influence, are of the tinny and remote variety.
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    Veronica LeeThe Arts Desk
    It takes several jarring switches of gear and direction.
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    Anton BitelVODzilla.co
    Andy Newberry's knowingly derivative thriller reimagines Psycho as a modern, gender-switched clash of classes.
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    Jennie KermodeEye for Film
    Each writer seems to have come to this film with their own pet plot strands and characters. The quantity of events taking place far exceeds their ability to develop any of these properly within the narrative space that remains to them.
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    Joel FisherBattle Royale With Cheese
    The Host leaves the audience waiting for the film to be over and reach its inevitable end. It also doesn't help that a final twist leaves the audience groaning as it is as pointless as the first.
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