Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
A fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years, like a brilliant shard of sea glass rendered smooth and elegant through generations of retelling.

Name : Jordan Mintzer / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Like The Red Turtle's shipwrecked protagonist, you have to simply stop fighting the current and go with the flow.

Name : Eric Kohn / Alias : indieWIRE
This is a quiet little masterpiece of images, each one rich with meaning, that collectively speak to a universal process.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
If only Ghost Dimension spent more time in the ghost dimension and less time in the people dimension, we might have had something.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
These jump scares are so utterly predictable that they might as well be heralded on-screen with a bouncing ball and an appearance by the Oogieloves.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
This series jumped the shark - maybe that should be jumped the dark? - following its not-bad third chapter.

Name : Devan Coggan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
If this is the last in the series, then the franchise has succeeded in going out with a bang - a bunch of them, actually, and at least a couple should have you involuntarily twitching in your seat.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
One would have to trawl through the deepest recesses of Romanian art cinema to find a film with as many static, silent shots of empty rooms and unfurnished hallways.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
At its most basic level, the "Paranormal Activity" formula still has some kick, with its combination of creepy lo-fi video and tasteful suburbia creating some strong, unsettling dissonance.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Such a tepid failure that it triggers catcalls from paying audiences.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
Those seeking closure to what continuity there has been will go home mostly disappointed.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Even at this late stage in the evolution of the franchise, logical lapses in filmmaking technique undercut the integrity of the found-footage format, but continuity was never one of the series' strong points, a shortcoming easily forgiven by fans.

Name : Bernard Besserglik / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie is held together.by the fluidity of his style and his characteristic blend of lightness and gravity.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out
Techine offers a character study in lieu of context for the similar 2007 hoax that threw the French press into a tizzy, and like many of his best films, this what-if examination works best as an actors' showcase.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Techine brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
At the age of sixty-six, [Techine] approaches the exploits of his characters with a gusto, and a willingness to be led astray, that borders on the adolescent.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A seductive drama.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Techine has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is Techine's gift - not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Don't expect any kind of neo-documentary examination of cause and effect. That's not filmmaker Andre Techine's style, and this is one of his most successful films.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A paper-thin plot ornamented with distractions: a nonlinear narrative, unreliable narrators, flatulent dialogue and awkward post-production work.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The film is based on a play, but it is to the director's credit that it never shows the claustrophobic trappings of a proscenium stage.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Like Techine's best films, the movie appears to be a story about nothing - until it suddenly becomes a meditation on the vagaries of the human heart.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : Village Voice
For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director Andre Techine can resist lathering into a tone poem.

Name : David Jenkins / Alias : Time Out
The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

Name : V.A. Musetto / Alias : New York Post
It is Dequenne who holds the film together - she and Techine's youthful touch, which belies his 66 years.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema.