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

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

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

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

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

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

A daring, sometimes provocative work, director Talia Lugacy's debut motion picture is still nonetheless an exhausting foray into horrific degradation devoid of either context or meaning.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 9, 2007

It's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 9, 2007

It's a lot like a '70s exploitation movie, with its determination to seduce and shock the viewer with alternating currents of electrical stimulus, and its weird combination of arty arch-decadence and neo-Victorian moralizing.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2007

A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2007

[Rosario Dawson] could have provided a 100-minute closeup and revealed more about human nature and anguish than all of Descent.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2007

You'll want to avert your eyes from this intense and intensely unpleasant drama about rape and revenge.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2007

Each section of the film is a heady and artful consideration of Maya's torment, which Dawson conveys as a wounded puzzle of shame and denial.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2007