Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.... (Full plot summary below)
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Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesMcKellen gives one of the year's great performances. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleBrought off with such skill and commitment that there isn't any time to snicker at its obviousness. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesApt Pupil is about as great as a modern Stephen King horror flick could get. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonEffective but not overwhelming, bone-chilling but not blood-freezing, Apt Pupil is a good shocker that misses the ultimate horror. |
| EmpireKim NewmanNot all the plot developments ring true, but moments carry a real chill - even in a coma, McKellen can terrify a fellow patient almost to death - and it has more than enough thought-provoking material to command your interest. |
| Dallas ObserverJean OppenheimerThis brutal film borders on the brilliant. Beautifully structured and edited, with a chilling central performance by Ian McKellen and an exceptional score by John Ottman, who also edited the picture, it churns up emotions and leaves the viewer feeling stunned and depleted. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIt's scariest as a parable about the evil that exists in the hearts of adolescent boys. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt's not perfect King, but it is jarringly close, which these days remains pretty much all one could hope for. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorLargely free of generic horror-movie elements, such as exploitative torture and murder scenes. Those it does contain draw attention to the difference between the conventions of psychological drama and those of pulp horror. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellBoth actors play their roles so trickily that tensions escalate until the horror grows unimaginatively gothic. |
