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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Feb 2017

It is very morbid fare, but Lowe combines the Dario Argento-like bloodletting with a very British, very deadpan wit…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 08 Feb 2017

A genuinely grotesque and original idea that never panders to genre expectation…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 07 Feb 2017

Alice Lowe’s directorial debut may falter in its grip, especially in story and tone, but it’s a daringly evocative film that marks a filmmaker…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Feb 2017

You don't need to have a warped sense of humour to enjoy writer-director Alice Lowe's gruesome black comedy, but it helps…

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By Kevin Harley (322) for Total Film (3,532) on 06 Feb 2017

Subtexts about grief and revenge help anchor the plot, though the more decisive clincher is Lowe’s guiding imprint – a mix of scathing…

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By Becky Kukla (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 01 Feb 2017

Prevenged is a wickedly funny film, with a unique twist on old body-horror stories of 1970s and '80s cinema…

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By Adam M (1,526) on 01 Feb 2017

Blackest comedy you'll see this year. If you haven't already, please don't watch any trailers for this movie…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Nov 2016

Uneven though it is, and downright shaggy at times, Prevenge is valuable in that it plots so unexpected an expectant-mother story — one in…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Nov 2016

While not every tonal downshift here is entirely fluid, this remains a smart, risky one-off, unconcerned with those (and there will be many)…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 18 Nov 2016

As with babymaking, the conception is more fun than the delivery, which comes perilously close to turning our knocked-up heroine’s kill list…

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By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Nov 2016

Conceived out of Lowe’s own experiences with pregnancy and shot while she was herself seven months along, the movie is a distinct blend of…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Nov 2016

A distinct blend of black humor, viciousness, body horror, and pathos…

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By Peter Turner (36) for Starburst (899) on 20 Oct 2016

While perhaps serious in some of what it has to say about the pregnancy experience, as well as the state of the world we live in, Prevenge…

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By Luke Channell (28) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 17 Oct 2016

Blends jet-black humour, edge-of-your-seat thrills and graphic gore with gleeful abandon…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 13 Oct 2016

Considering that this is Lowe's directorial debut (it's her second feature as screenwriter after the superb and not dissimilar Sightseers),…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 27 Sep 2016

Prevenge's underwhelming vibe is compounded and perpetuated by a repetitive structure that grows increasingly problematic…

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By Michael Leader (59) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 Sep 2016

Perhaps best known previously for starring in and co-writing director Ben Wheatley's killer caravanning comedy Sightseers, Alice Lowe births…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Sep 2016

Lowe has an awful lot of fun with the larger metaphor of Ruth no longer being in full control of her body…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 01 Sep 2016

Prevenge is nasty without being funny, Lowe peculiarly flat-toned: still, perhaps it's good to have it so graphically demonstrated that not…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 31 Aug 2016

It is a well made, well controlled film, and its sullenly monomaniac quality – perhaps partly a function of the star doing the writing and…

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