The Fourth Kind

"Universal's alien-abduction thriller none too cleverly bids to pass off mock-documentary footage of levitating psychological patients - and, scarier still, ordinary talking heads - as the real deal."

"Osunsanmi's tricksy formal device simply reinforces our disbelief and invites ridicule."

"Unfortunately, none of the subsequent noise is all that scary, and the striving for Paranormal Activity's buzz is shameless."

"May be humourless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare."

"Why the aliens chose this community of 9,261 to abduct so many people is a mystery. Also why owls stare into bedroom windows."

"Writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi attempts an Orson Welles-like confluence of "real" and imagined that might have worked had he gotten out of the way more, literally and figuratively."