For a mess, it's lively. But from Saulnier we'd have liked something more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2016

Its go-for-broke horror aesthetic a real world cavalcade of terror that had me noticeably shaking long after the film itself had come to an end.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2016

How can you resist a film that, metaphorically, throws Simon & Garfunkel, Fugazi and Slayer into the same moshpit?

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2016

Smartly cast, Stewart brings an almost Shakespearean edge to the drama, delivering lines such as "all is for nought" in the manner of a theatrical king surveying the devastation of a five-act tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2016

Saulnier's undoubted skills as a director just about outweigh his fondness for gore.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 13, 2016

[A] dourly aggressive, in-your-face thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2016

A pulverising piece of Seventies-style grindhouse exploitation, stitched together from the body parts of John Boorman's classic Deliverance and John Carpenter's siege thriller Assault on Precinct 13.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2016

For all the shock value of the explicit gore, the horror isn't the kind that lingers. Still, it's fun while it lasts -- that is, presuming you have a reasonably morbid idea of fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2016

It's all put together with great skill, but never quite manages to deliver more than its modest, stripped-back story will allow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2016

Scrape off the scum, and you'll find Green Room full of visual artistry, dark humor, smart writing, and glints of humanity.

| May 5, 2016

The most hardcore film of the year, Green Room, is 95 minutes of pure, unbridled Mosh Pit Cinema.

| May 4, 2016

It takes a while for the solid premise to unravel...and for the better portion of its running time Green Room functions as a highly effective thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2016

It's a delightfully cruel work of high tension, perfect in just how quickly and easily it gets under your skin.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 29, 2016

[Saulnier] has a gift for creating nail-biting tension and gets superb performances from his cast, but storywise he paints himself into a corner from which he can't escape.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 29, 2016

It doesn't take a big budget and loads of special effects to create a genuinely scary movie. It just takes - as writer/director Jeremy Saulnier ably demonstrates in Green Room - an intriguing premise, a taut, sinewy script and a solid cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2016

Bloody violence and a shouty soundtrack make this a grisly DIY treat.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 28, 2016

[Saulnier does] everything right: the cast, the music, the editing, the way he leads you one way and then clobbers you (and some of his ill-fated characters) when you (and they) are least expecting it.

| Apr 28, 2016

Jeremy Saulnier's little genre gem is simply told and smartly executed, with a little bit of everything, from snarling dogs to bloody murder to the innate fear evoked by the backwoods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2016

Fear brings out the truth, even in would-be punks. And there is a lot of fear in "Green Room."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2016

[Director] Saulnier elevates the ordinary into a tense game of punk rock cat-and-mouse that's only leavened slightly by a dark sense of humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2016