Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
It's tempting to dismiss Gods of Egypt as the most perfectly bad film I've ever seen. But that's not fair. It's perfectly itself - a bizarre, yet cohesive, construction.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
Gods of Egypt is also a just plain bad movie. The plot is confusing, yet boring. The visuals look expensive, yet cheesily fake. And the performances are uninteresting, yet . well, they're just uninteresting.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Overstocked, overstuffed and overlong, "Gods of Egypt" packs a squadron of immediately forgettable mythological deities into 127 inefficient minutes.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
No one is confusing "Gods of Egypt" with strong storytelling. But for a mindless whir of crazy visuals, you can do a lot worse.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
If it wasn't all CGI, I would have said I hope they saved the sets for another, better movie.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The "Battlefield Earth" of sword-and-sorcery movies.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
If it didn't make you constantly wonder whether some actors are standing closer to the camera than others, "Gods of Egypt" might pass muster as an occasionally lively and frequently campy B movie.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
If one is going to make special effects the focus of a movie, they need to be good special effects, and that's not the case here. Proyas' ideas are never fully translated from imagination to screen.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
Director Alex Proyas' movie feels like a bad video game.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A shoddy special-effects howler that makes a hash out of both Egyptian mythology and human logic.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
This is by any measure a dreadful movie, a chintzy, CG-encrusted eyesore that oozes stupidity and self-indulgence from its every pore.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
A wannabe franchise-starter that feels like it was adapted from a tabletop role-playing game, with strict rules that need to be repeatedly stated out loud and a bestiary of creatures.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's hard to take it all nearly as seriously as the actors (including a braided-pony-tailed, top-god-playing Geoffrey Rush in a spaceship!) do.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
Gods of Egypt gets lost in its own budget, constantly shooting to outdo its visual grandeur but forgetting to lend it any depth. But there's a mad ambition at work.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
What raises Gods of Egypt above all other historically botched FX epics is the stupefying schlock of its visual effects, they're like something out of Video Aps for Dummies. Come back, Clash of the Titans, all is forgiven.

Name : Anna King / Alias : Time Out
It seems as though a decent chunk of the Gods of Egypt budget went toward Butler's skin bronzer - money that would have been better spent on the cheap-looking special effects, which appear to be culled from Ghostbusters II.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
Many of the images in Gods of Egypt would make for a fetching prog-rock album cover, but Proyas has populated his digital paradise with banal characters, cherry-picked mythology, and a score just a few notes off from Lawrence of Arabia.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Butler charges around, flexing his muscles and growling, maybe throwing in a few snarls and snorts, and he's nothing but boring. He's the best thing in the movie.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Call it "Clash of the Whitans," and call it a folly that doesn't have the energy or delirium to qualify as entertaining crap. It's just crap.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Oh, dear.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
See it if you dare.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
Gods of Egypt is a movie that requires more effort to sit through than it did to make it.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Might have merited a so-bad-it's-good schadenfreude fanbase had it maintained the unintentional laughs of the first ten minutes. Instead, it skids into dullness, thus negating the camp classic that it so often verges on becoming.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
As bad movies go, this one at least is all-in on its badness.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
[An] ungodly jumble of a mortals-versus-deities rumble, placed in the time before the pyramids were tourist attractions.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
I enjoyed "Gods of Egypt" despite the lazily generic non-story, the dubious Eurocentric casting and (intentionally?) unconvincing effects that make you wonder (another imponderable) why they didn't just make this an animated picture.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
"The Witch" feels at once sticky with tangible detail and numinous with suggestion.

Name : Ethan Sacks / Alias : New York Daily News
There's not much of a coherent plot that's been summoned up to go along with those impressive visuals.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
[Eggers] proves to be an original and accomplished storyteller with much more to offer than cheap shocks.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
What makes this chillingly creepy little black-magic folk tale work so beautifully is its evocative sense of time and place . Well, that and composer Mark Korven's unsettling soundtrack full of screechy, dissonant strings.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The first great film of 2016 is a horror flick with Puritans, possessed kids, naked forest women and a haunting goat named Black Phillip.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
To my taste, the movie finally feels rather one-dimensional, basic. But there's no disputing its awful power - it gets under your skin .

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
Writer-director Robert Eggers makes an impressive feature debut with this gripping historical horror-thriller.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The Witch is a stressful movie to watch, and that's meant as the highest praise.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
It's clear that this beautifully made film wants to root its horror in the less-is-more approach. But in this case, less is often just less.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
The Witch has been made with extreme care, and part of what makes its supernatural elements so terrifying is that Eggers is also in tune with the more ordinary challenges of just being human .

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Like the Puritans themselves, the movie shuns drama. It has too much moral virtue for jump scares.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
With incredible attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to the world he has created, Eggers slowly, surely builds tension until it's almost unbearable. And that's delightful, if you're a horror fan. It's a terrific film.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
For fans of horror at its most sinister, "The Witch" is not to be missed. It casts a spell that lingers long after its most disquieting mists have cleared.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
This phenomenal debut feature by Robert Eggers has a singular style and tone, and its horror flows from the deepest wellsprings of human nature.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
What makes The Witch more than a mere museum reclamation project is Taylor-Joy.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Eggers creates a special feel and ambiance in his first feature after a couple of shorts.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
For once in a modern horror film, the tactics and developments are simple yet surprising, and the filmmaking captures its chosen time, place and dark corners beautifully.

Name : Dan Callahan / Alias : TheWrap
Isn't afraid to go to some dicey emotional and sexual places in its pursuit of its theme, and it has the sense to let some things remain unexplained because they are scarier that way.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
It's a creepy little gem, and its imagery will stay with you long after you've left the theater.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Writer-director Robert Eggers is said to be detail-obsessed, and it shows.

Name : Bill Zwecker / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
From the very opening scene in The Witch, we are immediately thrown into an ominous journey that conveys pending doom.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
With a gentle rap-rapping, Mr. Eggers intensifies the shivers with art-film moves, genre shocks and an excellent cast that includes a progressively rowdy menagerie.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Building his film on the diabolical aftershocks of Puritan repression, Eggers raises The Witch far above the horror herd. He doesn't need cheap tricks. Eggers merely directs us to look inside. Be warned: It'll scare the hell out of you.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
For anyone seeking an intelligent, atmospheric American horror story reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne and the Brothers Grimm, "The Witch" is the kind of pure movie magic that sends chills up the spine.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
All the dour zealotry is enlivened by horror elements that edge The Witch toward a welcome pulpiness - and greater honesty about what hokum the film actually is.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
As a horror movie . the film's only flaw may be that that's how it reductively sees itself - as just a horror movie.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
As straight horror, The Witch is something special, transporting audiences to a bygone era that would look plenty frightening even without the paranormal activity that engulfs it.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Minimalist, slow to burn and utterly confident in its style and tone, Robert Eggers' Colonial New England fairy tale earns its chills the old fashioned way, through timing, atmosphere and skill.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
A feature debut of startling confidence, Robert Eggers's The Witch is not only an excellent horror film, but also a captivating study in extreme paranoia and the fragile bonds of family.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
This bravura first feature by writer/director Robert Eggers leaves the viewer shaken and wondering, "What just happened?"

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
I would prefer seeing a failed attempt at something different than a regurgitation of every modern horror trope. Yet The Witch proves unable to capitalize on being different.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
It isn't engineered for hopped-up date-night scares, but its blanket of moonlit dread is certainly form-fitting .

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
One often enters the theater hoping to discover an innovative talent who could be "one to watch" or "the next big thing." Wait no longer, Eggers has arrived.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
The Witch" isn't typical gorehound material; it has an art film prestige and a commitment to period authenticity.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Helped by along by a great cast, a haunting soundtrack and terrific attention to period detail, The Witch is an auspicious feature debut for writer-director Robert Eggers.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
The movie's first-time director, Robert Eggers, blends authenticity with black magic, and the result is giddying.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
The Witch is wrapped up in its own views of religion, of sin, of feminine power, but more than anything else, it is wrapped up in itself.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Eggers' depiction of the family's psychological decay and his relentless piling up of deeply disturbing imagery make "The Witch" an unnerving and fresh-feeling horror masterwork.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Eggers doles out the horror sparingly and eerily: an image of blood in a milk pail, a moving shape in the shadow of a barn. The movie uses lamplight and hearth light to conceal as much as they reveal.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
The Witch immediately joins the pantheon of great horror movies, with the caveat that it's just barely a horror movie at all.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
Like any truly successful horror film, "The Witch" operates on various levels at once and is open to interpretation.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Slate
Robert Eggers' uncompromising directorial debut is a bracingly new experience that boils with the primordial fever of America's original sins.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
An unsettling journey back to a time when Satan seemed much closer to our world.