Intriguing movie... Sherlockian Edgar Allan Poe feel to the film.

Poe-as-detective period thriller with a clever central conceit — a killer using the author's work as a template. Cusack's Poe is committed, the execution is conventional. Competent genre entertainment.

A brilliant movie that had be hooked since the start. John Cusack does great as usual, and watching this has also gotten me into reading Edgar's works

_The Raven_ is an atmospheric and intriguing murder mystery. In a bit of historical fiction, the film supposes that in the days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was engaged in a murder investigate of a serial killer who was patterning his kills off of Poe’s writings. John Cusack stars as Poe and his performance is pretty good, but the rest of the cast is rather lackluster. And the storytelling is a little weak; as the mystery is awkwardly developed. Still, the film does a nice job at working in references to Poe’s works and at capturing his Gothic horror tone. It has some problems, but overall _The Raven_ is a chilling and imaginative film that’s full of suspense.

As an admirer of Edgar Allan POE and films of fiction and suspense I admire and marvel at diversity, romance and death in a single film!