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

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

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

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

The film's brutality - which includes not only the murder of a dog but also a fetishization of torture that borders on porn - is so excessive, even if tongue-in-cheek, that it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 5, 2015

If the film does anything right, it reminds us that now-48-year-old Hayek is one heck of a forceful presence when she is allowed to be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2015

Feels precision-engineered for a morally torn fanboy who likes the idea of female empowerment but needs it served with a heavy dose of torture porn and glistening flesh.

| Feb 26, 2015

Salma Hayek plays a sex slave turned killer in this stylish but lumbering actioner.

| Feb 26, 2015

What on earth is Salma Hayek doing starring in this exploitative, junky piece of torture trash?

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 26, 2015

There's the pervasive feeling that this is a prefab cult film that doesn't need to try too hard, instead offering cosmetic variations from a very limited playbook of gestures meant to provoke Pavlovian cries of "Awesome!"

| Original Score: C- | Feb 26, 2015

A smorgasbord of pornography masquerading as violence, Everly is so repugnant and pointless there were times when I wanted to call for help.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 26, 2015

[Director Joe Lynch] stages the action cleanly and kinetically. And Hayek delivers a fully committed performance, handling the role's intense physical demands with commanding authority.

| Feb 25, 2015

Why, Salma Hayek? Why?

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 25, 2015

Nothing more than a pointless exercise in brutal, nasty style.

| Original Score: C | Feb 25, 2015

Everly has the heaving, bloody bosoms of an exploitation flick, yet Hayek gives the character powerful dignity. She's no victim, nor an off-the-shelf "strong woman."

| Original Score: B | Feb 25, 2015

Yet another boring ode to heavy breathing that's offered under the hypocritical pretense of celebrating female empowerment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 22, 2015

There isn't much music to be made by mashing the same couple of notes, and the lack of variation gets to be a grind.

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