| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 4, 2011

Revenge is less than sweet, to say the least, in particular for the audience, veering between sickening and pathetically pornographic.

| Nov 11, 2007

Dawson, armed not with a whole lot of dialogue but her endlessly eloquent face, makes each note of the character's journey pierce, whether with pain or ecstasy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2007

It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with 'agenda,' is shrewdly done.

| Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2007

Sludgy and slack [...] pointlessly vague and abstruse.

| Aug 15, 2007

Though a clearly gifted new filmmaker, Lugacy doesn't get a handle on the combustible material, and she gets scalded in the process.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 14, 2007

Ugliness of story, character and technique cannot hold a movie audience and do more harm than good towards seeking a professed corrective.

| Aug 12, 2007

A hollow fabrication in the pursuit of someone's sick idea of redemption. I didn't pay to see it... but I want my wasted time back.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 11, 2007

There's too much arty writhing and too little concrete character development.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Look-at-me-I'm-a-filmmaker photography, pacing that has all the thrills of waiting in line at the post office and an utterly predictable plot combine to make the movie even worse than the hacky chick revenge fantasy now showing on channel 186 of your box.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

No moviegoer has done anything to deserve the images that director Talia Lugacy would throw in their face.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 10, 2007

[Dramatizes] the experience and the psychological aftermath of rape with a vividness I've never seen in an American film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2007

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2007

Descent is the head-slappingly awful picture that turns rape into a comedy.

| Original Score: D | Aug 9, 2007