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The Host (2007)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   A- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Ty Burr "...never less than bizarrely delightful." more... B+ Chicago Sun-Times Jim Emerson "...wild, crazy, messy, preposterous -- and all the better for it." more... B+ E! Online Alex Markerson "...mixes bittersweet humor and horrifying monster antics..." more... B+ Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...it wriggles with bioenergy and cinematic life." more... A- filmcritic.com Chris Cabin "...a distinct, deftly-calibrated Tilt-a-Whirl that fluidly shifts from fright to heartbreak to humor and back to humane..." more... A- New York Post V.A. Musetto "...a fantastical genre-buster." more... B+ Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Is it that scary? Yes. Will it reduce you to quivering jelly? Oh, my, yes! Does it bust the bonds of the Godzilla formula to fuse fright with feeling? Better believe it, dudes." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub "...a legitimate science-fiction/horror classic." more... A   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "The most dynamic and vital creature feature to invade American screens in years..." more... A- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)