Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
When the violence gets unbearable, take comfort in the troop of trainers on the sidelines who prove that, for now, man and beast still make a good team.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The more you command it to sit and stay-to settle down as a plausible plot, or to cohere as a political fable-the more it slips its leash and runs amok.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The whole production speaks well for the power of film; it's a serious stunner.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
Director Kornel Mundruczo goes big with allegory, violence, drama and sentiment, and the results are riveting.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
A rousing creature-feature thriller and political allegory, from Hungarian director Kornel Mundrucz.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's ruthless but sentimental, gritty but fanciful, drop-dead serious but also a little impossible to take seriously.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
What it all means is open to interpretation. Read it as a parable or as a horror movie. Read it as the story of love between a girl and her dog. Read it however you want. No matter what your take, you won't be disappointed.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The obviousness of the message - follow the right leader - would be more tolerable in a less badly acted, less shoddy-looking film.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Intriguing, but the movie's larger statement isn't clear.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
It all pays off with an astounding, extended climax that is as rousing and exciting as it is frightening - one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had watching a movie.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
White God offers a dark - very dark - take on the way humans exert authority, and superiority, over our fellow creatures.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
This powerful Hungarian drama features the Al Pacino of dog actors.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A mixed-genre fable that evokes Dickensian melodrama, coming-of-age tropes and outright horror.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Kornel Mundruczo's sixth and best feature is an emotionally rousing, technically masterful man-vs.-dog adventure.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
A B revenge movie with A-plus direction by Kornel Mundruczo and a cast of canines so personable that even when they tear out people's throats you still want to take them home.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This gripping suspense story considers how any canine can become the unfortunate repository for its master's darkest impulses.

Name : Bruce Ingram / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Unfortunately, whatever satisfaction you may derive from seeing assorted nasty human beings get what's coming to them for betraying the trust of man's best friend is watered down by vague social and political allegory.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Rarely does a film's execution achieve or even exceed its director's ambitions, but Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" is that rare movie.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Even those who don't buy in completely to Mundruczo's parable will be impressed by his canine crowd scenes, staged with ambition, skill and genuinely original vision.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Think "The Incredible Journey" crossed with "The Birds" crossed with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Or maybe just imagine "Cujo" as told from the dog's point of view. Don't take grandma.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The hand that feeds - and also brutalizes - is righteously bitten in "White God," a Hungarian revenge fantasy that's like nothing you've seen on screen before.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo downplays White God as a "genre experiment," but his film has real bite regardless.

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

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

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 : 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.