Rape Me
FilmFixx | Release Date: June 1, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
12
Negative:
8

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
A small revolution tucked inside clichés and willful artistic ineptitude. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
You won't feel raped by it, but you well may feel that it's too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences. Read full review
60
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
The naked, artless display of nerve and rebellious bile is altogether unique in modern movies.
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Tthough it comes wrapped in a stylish French mantle of feminist rage and sexual empowerment, the picture ultimately belongs squarely in the tradition of rape revenge pictures. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Seeks to shock and to outrage, and so far it's done both quite nicely. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Certainly blunt, and since Anderson and Bach are veterans of the porn trade, there is no skimping on the sex. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
Strictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Fast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it. After a while you couldn't care less if anyone is slaughtered or raped -- including the heroines. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Some may find it titillating; more will find it offensive and deeply disturbing. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's a bizarre hybrid: one part feminist screed, one part French art film and one part skin flick. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
As has happened before in less extreme circumstances, filmmakers with purportedly serious intentions punish their viewers for watching their envelope-pushing depiction of sex on the screen by presenting it in the most profoundly negative context imaginable. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Ms. Depentes and Ms. Thi -- push such chic amoralism to its logical conclusion, composing a numbing alternation of pornographic scenarios and brutal killings. The result is like something you'd see momentarily unscrambled on a hotel television set, but with better music and a little more of a story line. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Wit is in short supply -- although this journey to the end of the night derives a certain amount of punkish energy from its crude editing, cruddy-looking close-ups, strident soundtrack, and overall volatility. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
A vicious, hard-core version of "Thelma and Louise," going nowhere near the Grand Canyon but leaving a trail of carnage in their wake. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
The filmmakers have separated themselves from all the emotions of filmmaking except anger. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Sordid Thelma & Louise-ish spree, which also has certain affinities with Breathless but would be better termed Affectless. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldCharles Savage
The movie's only value is in unwittingly defining more clearly how played out the whole transgressing-boundaries-as-art thing has become. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It alternates between graphic, explicit sex scenes and murder scenes of brutal cruelty. You recoil from what's on the screen. Read full review
20
SalonCharles Taylor
Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted, never lets go of its intellectualized approach long enough to deliver any real kinetic thrills. Read full review
10
VarietyLisa Nesselson
This hard-core pic is a half-baked, punk-inflected porn odyssey masquerading as a movie worth seeing and talking about. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's pornography of the most depressing sort. Read full review
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