With its drab visual palette and ceaseless repetition of violence, there's little to recommend.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2019

Everly is a loud joyous, proud celebration of its genre, and frankly, it's just a hell of a fun thing to watch.

| Original Score: B+ | May 10, 2019

At times threatening to be the glorious piece of exploitation cinema it occasionally aims for, Everly never really gets a grip on... anything, really.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2019

From the first time we meet our tragic hero, Everly is a roller-coaster of escapism every action fan should take in.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 24, 2018

All said and done, this is Salma Hayek channeling her inner GI Jane. It could have been way more ambitions though.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 9, 2017

Watching Hayek going through the increasingly blood-soaked motions as the improbably resourceful title character quickly becomes embarrassing.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 30, 2017

There are some genuinely great action bits mixed in with a handful that are a bit more tired, and the overall package is full of ups and downs.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 2, 2016

Despite his and Hayek's best efforts, the result is sloppier than the mess Everly creates, blowing up a lift full of Yakuza.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2015

Those with an adolescent nostalgia for video-nasty era degradation/retribution may be mildly titillated, but Lynch has neither the wit nor desire to raise this above the level of faux-retro fanboy fantasy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 28, 2015

There are references to Leon, Kill Bill and Se7en, plus a whole lot of Japanese men in sharp suits -- leading to a distinct whiff of dj Woo.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2015

Lynch shows some visual flair with a few clever, Tarantino-like touches but the film overall is a deadening and claustrophobic experience, in which the human interest diminishes as rapidly as the body count rises.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2015

A relentless onslaught of violent action, this movie is notable mainly because there's a woman at the centre of it, which means that it's entertaining even if it's rather pointless.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 26, 2015

Salma Hayek stars in what must be the most distasteful and exploitative film of the year so far.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Lynch revels in showing woundings and torture, to the point where even the most hardened action fans may find themselves wincing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

From script to performances, it's completely implausimundo. And it's often nasty to the point of gratuitous, with a sense of humour likely only to appeal to those who take their comedy extra black.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

A gruelling gimmick thriller, pitched at dead-eyed graduates of the Matthew Vaughn school of cinematic sociopathy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Messy and unlikeable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

If it were an exam paper, you'd scrunch the whole thing up into a ball and throw it back at the overconfident poser who'd just submitted it. Preferably on fire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Even slobbering Salma fans might come away feeling frustrated at the lack of an x-rated payoff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 23, 2015

Everly has guts and sparkle but, without sense, it all adds up to nothing but bluster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2015