I Spit on Your Grave
Anchor Bay Entertainment | Release Date: October 8, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Exploitation pure and simple. But it's artistically redeeming exploitation. If you can handle it, see it. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Female-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, "Grave" is extremely efficient grindhouse. If there is any message here at all, it's don't mess with a novelist: being creative is her job. Read full review
50
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Its straight-ahead rape, humiliation and ingenious revenge competently executed but not aestheticized, the essential grunginess never overly slicked up. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Now it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderNoah Berlatsky
What it doesn't have is the first movie's primal understanding of patriarchal violence and feminist rage, as both moral horror and exploitation gold. As a result, this is a much easier movie to watch. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
In terms of real horror, nevermind sexual-politics provocation, "Grave" can neither re-create its predecessor's impact nor compete with stranger new beasts like Lars von Trier's "Antichrist." Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
This well-crafted example just piles imaginary atrocities on top of real ones, and then halfheartedly claim that it means something. Well, it doesn't. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Neither boring enough to qualify as pornography nor vital enough to generate a controversy. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
As vile, unredeeming and thoroughly unpleasant experiences go, I Spit on Your Grave at least has one thing interesting about it. It's a document of the most paranoid fantasies that urban, Northern people have about a rural Southern people. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable-yet still vapid and repulsive-while also, in a perverse way, selling it out. Read full review
20
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
When every injury is repaid with interest, this self-destroying work has nowhere to go but to the credits. Such symmetry is a dismal, barbarian sort of perfection. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Harsh-voiced Sarah Butler lends zero personality to her avenging antiheroine, and the retributive torture sequences approach "Saw" levels of unlikelihood. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesMichael Ordoña
For most, there will be no adrenaline rush from fear or thrill, or vicarious release from seeing tormentors tormented; one leaves feeling sad. Sad that this is what "entertainment" has come to. Come on, filmmakers. Can't you do better? Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film "I Spit on Your Grave" adds yet another offense: a phony moral equivalency. Read full review
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