The Raven (2012)


A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

The Raven (2012)

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Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 111 minutes
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Directors: James McTeigue

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A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

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63
ReelViews - James Berardinelli
The Raven is period piece fun - at least until it realizes there has to be a conclusion. That's where a certain amount of inevitable disappointment sets in. The curse of the two-hour murder mystery is that the ending never seems to justify the build-up.
60
The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw
It runs out of steam in the final 10 minutes, but there's some gruesome drama and Cusack is on decent form.
58
The A.V. Club - Tasha Robinson
Poe was a flawed figure, but his greatest strength was in avoiding convention, or reinterpreting it to create something new. The Raven aspires to both, but abandons those ambitions to lie limply on the floor - only this, and nothing more.
50
Tampa Bay Times - Steve Persall
The Raven isn't nearly as much fun as it should be.
50
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
When I heard that John Cusack had been cast for this film, it sounded like good news: I could imagine him as Poe, tortured and brilliant, lashing out at a cruel world. But that isn't the historical Poe the movie has in mind. It is a melodramatic Poe, calling for the gifts of Nicolas Cage.

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