The messaging gets a bit muddled in the second half, but American Mary offers plenty for viewers to chew on.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 19, 2022

While the film is ultimately stronger in its first half, American Mary is a showcase for Isabelle's talent and an intriguing consideration of the body mod community. One only wishes the Soskas were a little sharper with their messaging

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 14, 2022

I was very dazzled by the freakish nature.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 14, 2021

With a bit of body horror mixed in, the Soska Sisters have offered a decidedly different horror perspective in the rape-revenge sub-genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2019

The Soska Twins show a lot of depth in their filmmaking, producing an intriguing movie that you can't take your eyes off of.

| Oct 20, 2018

Isabelle rightly steals the show courtesy of her smouldering and deranged central performance, remaining charming throughout despite the horrors she ultimately commits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

If AMERICAN MARY has flaws-which I'm sure it does-they're dwarfed. I was having such a good time, I chose to ignore them. Hell, some of my best, most beautiful and interesting friends are flawed. That's what makes them so unforgettable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2017

One of the strangest, darkest, and most confident "female-centric" horror flicks in quite some time.

| Aug 24, 2015

A sensational opening makes the disappointing final act hurt all the more as American Mary falls in a heap in its final act.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Katharine Isabelle dominates the screen from the minute we meet her, and delivers a masterful performance.

| Nov 12, 2013

The almost excessively uneven narrative does, in the end, cancel out the effectiveness of the film's positive attributes...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2013

Alt horror about a Seattle surgery drop-out is a mediocre specimen of the Canadian kinky flesh genre of "Antiviral," "Crash" and "Kissed." End credits say "For Eli Roth."

| Jun 27, 2013

Sexy and delightfully deadpan, Katharine Isabelle absolutely kills it as loner med student Mary, so passionate about perfecting her surgical skills that she spends her evenings suturing turkey flesh.

| Jun 14, 2013

Alternately creepy and languid, incisive and aimless, American Mary examines a provocative subject, heralding the duo as a couple of the genre's next great voices - that is, as soon as their follow-through proves as strong as their set-up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 12, 2013

Creepy, perverted, disgusting fright flick filled with horrific imagery.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 3, 2013

A mindless exercise in sadism that's neither scary nor a guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 5.0/10 | May 31, 2013

Try as the sisters might, American Mary is neither scary or funny.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 31, 2013

Writer-directors Jen and Sylvia Soska don't seem to have their material completely under control, but they've created a worthy entry in the Freaks school of cult cinema.

| May 31, 2013

Given its many failings, nothing short of an extreme makeover could save American Mary. Scalpel, please.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 31, 2013

American Mary is the newest addition to a long list of horror films about disturbed and disturbing doctors,and it's a worthy one.

| May 31, 2013