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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsPiers McGrail's nuanced, moody cinematography brings out the best in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh's over-mannered but effectively creepy ghost story.
- 70The DissolveThe DissolveA good-looking, sometimes completely terrifying haunted-house story.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonWith a scare factor far greater than its modest dimensions initially seem to promise, The Canal is a polished indie psycho-thriller full of macabre twists and nerve-snapping tension.
- 50The New York TimesAnita GatesThe New York TimesAnita GatesThe film’s writer and director, Ivan Kavanagh, and his team pull off a few enjoyable, decently creepy scares, but over all, the action is too cryptic, and the pedestrian dialogue doesn’t help.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezUnlike David Lynch, Ivan Kavanagh isn't interested in catching ideas like fish, of linking the degradation of film to the degradation of consciousness.