on rotten tomatoes, the film has a rating of 31% based on 129 reviews and an average rating of 4.8/10. the site's consensus reads: "paying competent homage without adding anything of real value to the original "poltergeist", this remake proves just as ephemeral (but half as haunting) as its titular spirit." on metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". audiences polled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of "c+" on an a+ to f scale.