The Raven
In 19th-century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields makes a horrifying discovery: The murders of a mother and daughter resemble a fictional crime described in a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Now he must join forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
1965, Hungary
1987, Budapest, Hungary
11 May 1948, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
4 November 1965, Hungary
2 September 1972, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
15 April 1979, Pontypool, Wales, UK
24 October 1986, London, England, UK
24 January 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 December 1963, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
18 September 1972, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
September1980, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
26 May 1971, Landstuhl, West Germany
1959, Golspie, Scotland, UK
15 October 1985, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
5 May 1981, Glendale, California, USA
30 December 1979, Hungary
7 June 1978, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
February 15, 2013
A crudely written and wholly uninspired thriller that's unlikely to win anyone over to the horror master's oeuvre.
April 28, 2012
It lingers intolerably on some inessential scenes, rushes through others, and fails to provide any motivation either for Poe's devoted (albeit fictional) love, or the film's archvillain.
April 27, 2012
It's 'Saw' meets 'Sherlock Holmes.' "
February 12, 2013
The Raven is a movie with its wings clipped; a murder mystery that feels strangely subdued.
April 18, 2017
Never pulls you into its weird story.
April 28, 2012
Basically a well-researched but formulaic mystery centered on one of those nyah-nyah serial killers we've seen a thousand times.
April 27, 2012
Never commits to the kind of full-bore lunacy that might have made the film a campy pleasure.
May 03, 2015
CSI: Nevermore.
February 01, 2013
Even though this film has more than its share of dark, gruesome elements, there is also enough of a sense of playfulness in it to help make it entertaining.
April 27, 2012
Director James McTeigue has no feel for humor or terror, making what could have been a witty pastiche into another cheesy slice-and-dice horror flick.
February 12, 2013
The problem is that "The Raven" is all surface. The movie is nothing but its fun idea, without much development or ingenuity
April 27, 2012
The subject matter screams out for cleverness and depth, the sort of mind-bending twists and satisfying darkness that Poe himself would love. It finds them only in small doses.
