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• tt is for those who watch movies not merely for entertainment but for something deeper

  Review rate : B by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• the technique pays off with tiny, close-up details

  by Leslie Felperin [Variety ]

• the movie is creepy, but it has no texture or depth

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• the fractured narrative style sometimes feels forced

  Review rate : C by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• the film is dominated by the aesthetic impulse

  by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]

• the actors are uniformly skillful

  by Richard Brody [New Yorker ]

• striking visuals enhance a complex and compelling modern tragedy

  by Laremy Legel [Film.com ]

• sometimes discordant movie as it presents tough ideas about what parents may or may not be responsible for

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• Ramsay only succeeds in making what was once allusive banal

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• narrative film feel like an intoxicating and abstract fusion of painting and music

  Review rate : B by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]

• misguided mess with a fractured narrative, guaranteed to drive audiences away in droves

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• it's more horror movie than insightful psychological study

  by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]

• despite the scenario's ample opportunities for scoring facile anti-contemporary culture/sociology points, Ramsay insists on keeping her parable raw and elemental

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• compulsively backward and forward through time

  by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]

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