Read the Empire Movie review of Flatliners. Starts strong, finishes dull. The original Flatliners should have had a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order...

Caught between genres, the new remake fails to justify itself

Almost 30 years after Joel Schumacher's hit 'Flatliners,' another group of med students tries to cheat death in Niels Arden Oplev's remake.

Even with Ellen Page and Diego Luna as sexy idiot doctors, this new version of a 1990 Joel Schumacher thriller is still a generic slog.

The best that can be said about the “Flatliners” remake is that the new filmmaking team of writer Ben Ripley and director Niels Arden Oplev makes the ori...

The original starred Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon, among others. The new one has Ellen Page and some horror movie tricks.

The original Flatliners,the 1990 psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and starringJulia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland, wasn’t a good movie...

A frustratingly not-terrible remake of a thriller that was not all there to begin with.

Spoiler alert. There is absolutely no reason — NONE — for casting Kiefer Sutherland in the remake of “Flatliners” if you’re not going to have him r...

Starring Ellen Page, update of a silly 1990 Julia Roberts thriller is "even more witless and stupefyingly dull than the original"

A group of medical students experiment with the afterlife in this remake of Joel Schumacher's 1990 original

Instead, they made a film about the dangers of playing God, or at least playing God with sloppy scientific protocols.

Joel Schumacher's atmospheric cult classic about death-defying medical students, revived as blah horror

Joel Schumacher’s 1990 schlocksterpiece “Flatliners” was perhaps most notable for taking a silly but strangely compelling premise (a gang of sexy, thri...

The new version loses the original’s most intriguing element, and turns into tidy, cornball, Sunday school moralism.