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By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jan 2016

The co-directing brothers Goetz prove adept at building escape-the-bad-guy action sequences, but they continually run up against the story's…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Jan 2016

Both the French and U.S. iterations of Martyrs are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Jan 2016

Depending on what you need from horror like this – shock followed by relief, or a brutalization fix – Martyrs is bait-and-switch, or it’s…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Jan 2016

Deviating from the original in some key respects, this version of Martyrs doesn't make much of a case for its inspiration, but it may attract…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 Jan 2016

A self-serving remark on the part of the filmmakers, who place only the tiniest fig leaf of a story on a panoramic canvas of the gory, gross…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Jan 2016

The movie feels like a thin excuse to show image after image of women being abused…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Jan 2016

Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, Martyrs mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump…

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By Alex Mccown (15) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Jan 2016

Unfortunately, in goosing the momentum, the creators of the film have lost the soul of what was essential to this horrific tale…

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By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Jan 2016

Martyrs is only eighty minutes long, sans credits, yet still it manages to cram four bad horror films into its meager runtime…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2016

It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text…

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By Joetaeb D (716) on 15 Jan 2016

Brutal, grisly and surprisingly compelling…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 29 Dec 2015

Defying all boundaries, Martyrs relentlessly dishes the visceral pain and emerges as a work of not just ceaseless terror but also gravity and beauty…

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By Enrique S (60) on 29 Dec 2015

Martyrs is a perfect example of the term torture-porn the first hour of the film begins with the typical story of revenge, (quite interesting,…

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By Wayne K (446) on 02 Dec 2015

A film that split audiences when it was released had a very similar effect on myself…

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By Reilly K (4) on 20 Nov 2015

Wow. Where to begin with this one... This movie is so unpredictable, disturbing, graphic, and emotional…

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By Darcy M (17) on 15 Nov 2015

Just ...wow. This is two different movies…

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By Simon D (1,648) on 08 Nov 2015

Unique horror film which doesn't hold back on the gore…

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By Faye T (14) on 28 Oct 2015

Nope. Just nope. Panders to the torture porn crowd…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 12 Oct 2015

It's a hollow film with hopelessly annoying themes that don't arouse questions so much as eye rolls…

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By Lell G (6) on 24 Sep 2015

Started OK with some doubts about why the friend would be so supportive but was just an excuse to show brutal and disgusting torture of a girl…

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