Captivity is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name. It's disturbing in the most unpleasant ways possible outside of Abu Ghraib or battlefield snuff films.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 20, 2007

[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 18, 2007

A poseur Grand Guignol, artistically indefensible and rank without purpose.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 16, 2007

It's not scary because not one second is believable.

| Jul 16, 2007

The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2007

Captivity the movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by Captivity the marketing.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 14, 2007

It's a Saw rip-off with less smarts. (Take a moment, please, to allow that sentence to sink in.)

| Jul 14, 2007

The controversy may have piqued the curiosity of horror fans but the film is undeserving of any further attention, managing to be both nastily unpleasant and laughably ludicrous.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 13, 2007

A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 13, 2007

Captivity has the compulsory quality of a straight-to-DVD movie -- and considering the fast-fading torture-porn movement, that's no doubt the destiny of similar offerings to follow.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 13, 2007

Slick, sick sleaze.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 13, 2007

What made the esteemed director of The Killing Fields and The Mission stoop to this is anybody's guess.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2007

Destined to be better remembered for its grisly billboard imagery than for its relatively tame torture-porn tropes.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2007

Only about twelve people you know are likely to ever see the film. Eleven will hate it. Avoid hanging out with the twelfth.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2007

One has to worry about a world where there is a constant appetite for films like this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Larry Cohen, an experienced horror hand, wrote this, and Joffé does his best to keep the tension boiling up to a ridiculous climax. Even so, everybody involved should be ashamed of this nasty farrago.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Veteran writer Larry Cohen has shown a knack for claustrophobic thrillers (Phone Booth), but this tawdry effort is almost entirely lacking in stealth and suspense.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Captivity is an abomination, and perhaps a new low in the torture-porn genre: a film I liked even less than Hostel.

| Jun 22, 2007

The film itself is a very sorry and unthrilling piece of nastiness, peddling some pretty crass nonsense about what it imagines to be female psychology.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Roland Joffé's feeble attempt to swing with the latest horror-flick fashion for gratuitous sensation is embarrassing

| Jun 22, 2007