Descent
City Lights Pictures | Release Date: August 10, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with ''agenda,'' is shrewdly done. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's a lot like a '70s exploitation movie, with its determination to seduce and shock the viewer with alternating currents of electrical stimulus, and its weird combination of arty arch-decadence and neo-Victorian moralizing. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
Hard to watch but essential to see, Descent is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place. Read full review
60
Village VoiceErnest Hardy
A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though a clearly gifted new filmmaker, Lugacy doesn't get a handle on the combustible material, and she gets scalded in the process. Read full review
50
VarietyJohn Anderson
Pic's message is the one thing that's made clear: A victim can sink lower than her predator. Whether receiving that message justifies the cost of watching Descent is another question. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Too elliptical to be convincing. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
Depending on your revenge story preferences, the brutally pretentious Descent is either a payback flick with an agonizingly formless middle, or a soul-darkening head trip bracketed by a crude vengeance tale. Mostly, though, it's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
There is no excusing date rape, but the revenge conceived and executed by Rosario Dawson's Maya in this revolting, amateurish drama is something you might only wish on Osama Bin Laden. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
Even worse than the hacky chick revenge fantasy now showing on channel 186 of your box. Read full review
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