The Fourth Kind is nothing more than an elaborate hoax to draw UFO enthusiasts.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 7, 2024

The 'Fifth Kind' is when you're stupid enough to spend your hard earned cash to view what is easily one of 2009's worst films and a surefire Razzie nominee for Worst Picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Filmed with too many re-creations of the shrink's videotaped sessions.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 29, 2019

Fourth Kind reeks of laziness.

Full Review | May 23, 2018

Something weird is going on in Nome, Alaska. Unsolved murders. suicidal freak-outs. a bunch of people having eerie, similar nightmares. and a spooky white owl.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2011

It's an interesting meta-textual experiment, but that doesn't in itself make for an interesting movie, or a suspenseful one. There are things to like about it, but the whole doesn't really seem equal to the sum of its parts.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 22, 2011

[The] ostensible archival footage proves so clunky and transparently phony that the entire gimmick collapses.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 5, 2011

If there were a low point of viral movie marketing last decade, consider "The Fourth Kind" the Marianas Trench. The title refers to four levels of alien interaction, and the pedestrian plotting on display proved Steven Spielberg stopped at the right one.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 25, 2010

The eerie-jumpy bits simply don't pan out satisfyingly or convincingly.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

When the director divides the screen into quadrants for his big finish, the effect is just laughable -- but then by that point, the movie is too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.9/10 | Jul 4, 2010

"Attempting shock value and extraterrestrial disturbance to generate a cult smash, Kind will likely tire audiences before it ever has a chance to swindle them."

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Jun 2, 2010

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Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 26, 2010

The arrogance and ignorance on display is truly amazing. Arrogance of its superiority over the audience's intellect and ignorance of filmmaking craft.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 16, 2010

It's my policy to sit through every film that opens theatrically in Atlanta. If I was going to violate that policy, it would be for this film. I hope I make my point. Paul Chambers, CNN.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Mar 12, 2010

The Fourth Kind is more likely to elicit laughter than the suspense it promised in the opening monologue.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 20, 2010

Where is Fox Mulder when you need him?

Full Review | Nov 19, 2009

The "The Fourth Kind" poses as another successful documentary on the hot trail of "Paranormal Activity". Too bad this film is missing many ingredients to make it a blockbuster success.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2009

He apparently thinks white owls are a lot scarier than they are. (I mean, I guess because their heads swivel around, you can't sneak up on them from behind. But when would you need to sneak up on an owl?)

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 13, 2009

Purporting to be a true story of alien abduction, in reality it's a clumsy attempt to update the hoax technique Orson Welles perfected seven decades ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2009

... a sophisticated hoax ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2009