Meant more as perverse gimmicky entertainment than in telling anything meaningful about the human condition.

| Original Score: C | Jan 14, 2009

13 Tzameti does suffer from a weak and even lazy conclusion, but that doesn't stop 90 minutes that come before it. This truly is deserving of being unforgettable.

| Oct 13, 2007

I knew nothing before I saw this film, except I heard it was intense (it is) and a little violent (also true). It's also well made, disturbing, and rather hard to forget.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2007

Biting into the dubious apple of the new market economy.

| Apr 22, 2007

At its center is an astonishing set-piece that will rivet almost any moviegoer.

| Mar 1, 2007

the most artsy spin on The Most Dangerous Game ever plunked down on the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2007

A gritty, high attrition-rate mindbender guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to its shocking finale.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 9, 2007

Easier to admire than it is to sit through, the French film 13 (Tzameti) is an exercise in stylish depravity that may one day be viewed as the debut of a great filmmaker.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2007

Comes off like a punch in the stomach. A terrific, focused first-effort by the Georgian emigre Gela Babluani.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 19, 2007

A tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2007

"13 Tzameti" has you on the edge of your seat with a story that throws unexpected punches at every corner.

| Jan 19, 2007

It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2006

A stylish and unnerving thriller that sucks you into surreal scenes of horror with the chilly confidence of a nightmare.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 10, 2006

Takes awhile to establish where it's going, but it's powered by a kind of sick dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2006

The Georgian-born French director Gela Babluani makes an absorbing debut with this black-and-white thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

The earned payoff is an all-too-believable shocker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2006

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| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

Gela Babluani, according to the film's sparse press kit, is only 26 years old but already knows more about suspense than some filmmakers learn in a career.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

A remarkable debut of undeniable power.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2006

The Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.

| Original Score: B | Sep 21, 2006