The Tortured
IFC Films | Release Date: June 15, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
9
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
8
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25
ObserverRex ReedJun 13, 2012
A nasty piece of work that's been hanging around for two years looking for an audience. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJun 11, 2012
Robert Lieberman's Perverted Justice advert spins its wheels with scene after scene impatiently cut like a montage sequence. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJun 14, 2012
It's bluntly written, poorly shot and edited, and cruel without being clever. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 12, 2012
A last-minute twist implicating the audience in the bloodlust isn't clever so much as hypocritical. Read full review
20
Village VoiceBenjamin MercerJun 12, 2012
Lean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasJun 13, 2012
There's an opportunity here for screenwriter Marek Posival and director Robert Lieberman to play up the squeamishness of upper-middle-class torturers who don't fit the profile, but they're too busy tending to horror-thriller clichés. Read full review
10
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 15, 2012
Veering from ridiculous to revolting, The Tortured would like to be about more than singed nipples and seared skin. And it is: It's also about cracked toes and lanced eardrums. Read full review
0
New York PostKyle SmithJun 15, 2012
The movie is so inept - with its flat characters, histrionic acting, dull dialogue ("Killing him is not going to change anything"), a dreadfully overdone musical score and la-la-la flashbacks starring the kid - that its clichés grow slightly funny. But not funny enough to make the endless torture scenes bearable. Read full review
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