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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Boxoffice MagazineRichard MoweBoxoffice MagazineRichard MoweThis film is only for those with strong constitutions and a penchant for painstaking details.
- 50VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinThe screenplay leaves it to the audience to map the psychological terrain, which will frustrate some but thrill others who prefer oblique storytelling.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceToo bad the director blows it with a last act that tips the film's delicate balance over into lurid grotesquerie, even as his staging remains as consciously muted as ever.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis stylistic restraint may help deflect accusations of exploitation (though the film's two pivotal sex scenes both feel uncomfortably extended, the initial crime lasting a squirm-inducing six minutes), but it also impedes our connection with the victims.
- 20Time OutTime OutThe film's horrifying experience looms over each well-constructed frame without anywhere to go.