Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
If you're looking for cheap scares and have 90 minutes to kill, you could do worse than The Pyramid. But not a lot worse.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A stinker in every sense.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
It's hard to know what's worse, the under-lit "found footage" from the documentary team or the wretched dialogue.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Levasseur plants and executes the pic's exclamation-point scares with grinning, squelching gusto. It matters little that most of the jolts have been lifted from previous movies .

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The air inside the pyramid isn't the only thing that's stale in this ludicrous yet mildly likable horror film.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
These B-movie touches aren't especially scary, and the characters are too paralyzed with fear to have much fun with the silliness.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
This enjoyable-despite-itself horror flick has precisely nothing new to offer - with the arguable exception of a monster in a miniskirt, which may be a first.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : New York Times
"The Pyramid," despite an unpretentious matinee vibe, is mostly interesting in seeing how little light can be on screen before a bare minimum of suspense and coherence dissipates. There is, truly, not much to see in this movie.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Some things were never meant to be uncovered. Some movies, too.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like so many filmmakers before him, Levasseur doesn't seem to grasp that in the horror genre, less can be more.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
[Freeheld] is sincere, to be sure, but unlikely to win any prizes. For starters, the most memorable character in this important story of a courageous woman is a man; that's a problem.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
It's just a shame Freeheld couldn't state its case without STATING ITS CASE so often.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
The real-life story is moving and stirring enough to carry over the film's tendency to coddle its straight audience's perceived inability to be outraged over Laurel's plight.

Name : Simon Houpt / Alias : Globe and Mail
Page and Julianne Moore, who plays Hester, have an easy if not electric chemistry, but they seem hamstrung by the movie-of-the-week tropes and Peter Sollett's plodding direction.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
It's a poignant, relevant and beautifully made film that must not be missed by anyone with a heart and a social conscience.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Freeheld underwhelms even as it more or less delivers .

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
Just because anyone would agree with its message doesn't mean this glorified Lifetime movie does a worthy job of conveying it.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A television movie of the week gone uninterestingly wrong .

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
It's a well-made but matter-of-fact account of a gripping story, one made more poignant by the advances made in gay rights in the decade since.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
In the end credits, we see photos of the real Laurel and Stacie, in happier days, and you can see love glowing around them. Too bad that the movie, well-intentioned as it is, never quite catches that spark.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
This film about a headline-making LGBT rights case simplifies when it most needs to stay knotty, but keep your eyes on Julianne Moore and Ellen Page and you'll know your seeing the truth.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
It's a stiff, overly calculated piece of awards bait that has all the elements of an Academy Awards triumph - except a beating heart.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
The early scenes, when Laurel and Stacie first meet and court, are charming, and the performers' contrapuntal acting styles here ring true. But when the diagnosis arrives, all the predictable buttons are pushed and righteousness reigns.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
The drama that "Freeheld" unsuccessfully strives for ultimately can't compete with the far-more-compelling facts that inspired it.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The story is more worthy than watchable - part chest-thumping issue drama, part disease-of-the-week tearjerker.

Name : Benjamin Mercer / Alias : AV Club
It doesn't quite feel like the prestige pictures that blow through theaters this time of year; it's a drama often dignified by its workmanlike approach, one that feels relatively judicious with its uplift.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
At times plays like a period piece, populated by cardboard bigots, flamboyant gay crusaders and other hoary relics of a less enlightened past. That may be cause for celebration, but it's hardly a compliment.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
For all its clumsiness, the story resonates-and the photos that run over the final credits are a poignant reminder of the real life, not just the political legacy, that Laurel left behind.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
In spite of itself . "Freeheld" still delivers emotionally.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Well-meaning but fairly predictable tear-jerker.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
You would have to be a stone to be completely unmoved by "Freeheld," especially with Moore as the star. But having its heart and mind in the right place is not enough to make this a better movie than it is.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Freeheld" is a snapshot of a notable American moment.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Freeheld" is a disappointingly flat affair, plodding in its pacing and predictable in its story beats.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
It's a sharp-enough political drama, building to a Lincoln-like public vote, and it's a surprisingly restrained cancer picture, an affecting one that nonetheless doesn't demand that we agonize at each step of the patient's decline.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
A well-meaning movie whose sterling intentions, timely and provocative subject and terrific cast are muted to near oblivion by uninspired storytelling and direction.

Name : Steve Pond / Alias : TheWrap
It isn't a great movie, but it's a great story told with affection and heart.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Freeheld" is formulaic, but some formulas are good if you do them right, and it helps knowing that it all really happened, or most of it.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
It hits the right sentimental moments but doesn't truly touch hearts as it settles into courtroom drama mode.