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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 May 2018

Revenge is a bloody middle finger ... a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot. You've been warned, gents…

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By William Venegas (102) for La Nación (Costa Rica) (102) on 13 May 2018

With good handling of the narrative rhythm, we soon discover that the subject goes beyond nice photography and that we are facing a strong…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 12 May 2018

Revenge is part trashy exploitation flick, part Looney Tunes romp…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 11 May 2018

The way Fargeat plays with these tropes gives her film an edge…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 May 2018

Fargeat gets her thrills from all the bad things that make her genre great: Cinematography that’s rancid with heat and color, sound design…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 11 May 2018

Revenge inverts the gutbucket revenge genre without transcending it. That said, why should men have all the fun…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 May 2018

With Revenge, Fargeat has waved a blistering middle finger at rape culture and rape culture's enablers. Revenge isn't hers alone…

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By Joule Zelman (14) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 10 May 2018

The only real surprise is the sheer volume of gore: If gouged eyeballs, exploded heads, impaled torsos, and beautiful naked people flailing…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 10 May 2018

Revenge is a dish that's best served cold but a very bloody one in the case of Coralie Fargeat's feature directorial debut...a marvelous performance…

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By Taylor Antrim (19) for Vogue (149) on 10 May 2018

It's a ludicrously gory, over-the-top, woman-on-a-rampage grindhouse film... and I kind of loved it…

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By Lena Wilson (121) for Slate (2,081) on 10 May 2018

Though the film makes a valiant effort to subvert a sexist formula by shrouding itself in French art film trappings and pseudo-empowering femininity,…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 May 2018

It's a film that manages to leer at its scantily clad heroine only to eventually make you root for her to dish out as much bloody punishment…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 May 2018

From beginning to brutal end, this is Fargeat’s uncompromising creation, but Lutz is at the centre of the terror, and acquits herself well…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 May 2018

The film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer/director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 May 2018

With Revenge, Fargeat has waved a blistering middle finger at rape culture and rape culture’s enablers. Revenge isn’t hers alone…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 10 May 2018

Even if you think you know where it’s going as its builds to a near-wordless finale (and you might be right), the moments of character detail…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 09 May 2018

It all becomes very silly and very panto... The claims for feminist credibility feel very last-ditch indeed…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Riot Material (43) on 09 May 2018

Coralie Fargeat's feature debut Revenge is a jaw-dropping thriller that's both nail-bitingly brutal and fiercely feminist…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 09 May 2018

Writer-director Coralie Fargeat has come up with something so brutally atavistic, specifics would only get in the way…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 09 May 2018

This story ... uses the abuse of a woman as a means of creating some thrills, but at least the thrills of Revenge aren't cheap…

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