I Spit on Your Grave

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “Exploitation pure and simple. But it's artistically redeeming exploitation. If you can handle it, see it.”

  V.A. Musetto, New York Post · 75

• “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.”

  Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times · 60

• “Its straight-ahead rape, humiliation and ingenious revenge competently executed but not aestheticized, the essential grunginess never overly slicked up.”

  Ronnie Scheib, Variety · 50

• “Now it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt.”

  Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly · 42

• “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.”

  Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader · 40