Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2006

Hafstrm's dramatic sense is ... pedestrian and snail's-pace obvious.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Movies like Evil entertain us by serving sweet revenge on a platter, and director Mikael Hfstrm manipulates emotions more intelligently than most.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

Wilson, who plays Erik, had never been in a film before Evil -- which was nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar in 2004 -- and there's no reason that he can't make many more of them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2006

A commentary on the troubling gray area between acceptable and unacceptable forms of violence, especially where the molding of boys into 'real men' is concerned.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2006

Solid enough, its main flaw is a sense of restraint -- it never quite ventures into the surreal darkness of the obviously comparable If...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2006

The way it plays out, Evil feeds the audience's bloodlust as much as it decries the worst acts of its characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2006

Hafstrom ... keeps us guessing as he confidently builds suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Hafstrom never finds the shades in his morality tale, so while Wilson is an intensely charismatic actor, all he can do is respond to relentless, escalating tortures. It's immensely unpleasant for him, and, frankly, not a whole lot better for us.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Although Evil eventually suffers from its heavy-handed treatment of its subject, it is a well-made and engrossing melodrama.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2006

The movie is as blunt as its title.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 9, 2006

Wilson is a powerful presence as the slow-burning but, when roused, very violent Erik, while Lundstrom movingly portrays the vulnerable Pierre.

Full Review | Mar 9, 2006

Comes perilously close to making Erik's suffering at the hands of sadistic upperclassmen seem almost fetishistic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2006

Watching this time bomb tick away is never less than riveting.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 8, 2006

The milieu owes something to Lindsay Anderson's If.... , but Evil is less anti-authority than pro-confrontation.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2006

not even a film as colossally absurd as Crash dares to completely sum up its entire train of thought in its one-word title, but such is the insult this 2005 Oscar nominee from Sweden commits.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 15, 2006

It's assured filmmaking and proof that school isn't always the best days of your life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2005

Hfstrm leaves no loose end untied, and no easy sentiment untapped, but there's a didacticism to Evil that undercuts its sturdy narrative construction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2003