"There is no innocence in the world of ''Flatliners'' - not in childhood memories, not in the motives of the medical students who push themselves beyond death and then return to life, not in the film's borrowings from classic horror movies. And all of that is to the good. ''Flatliners'' is a stylish, eerie psychological horror film laced with wit, a movie that thrives on its characters' guilty secrets and succeeds on the strength of the director Joel Schumacher's flair for just this sort of smart, unpretentious entertainment." - Caryn James, The New York Times