It's deeply unappetising - insipid for much of its length, before soullessly revelling in the agony for its final stretch.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 3, 2016

What's left after the gore is stripped away is a mildly bloody, meatless horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 31, 2016

The icky messiness that gave Laugier's film its visceral impact has been watered down and sanitised here, while the genuinely transcendent ending of the original is banally reduced to a eulogy for friendship.

| Feb 29, 2016

Both the French and U.S. iterations of "Martyrs" are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 22, 2016

Pointlessly repellent.

| Jan 21, 2016

The filmmakers ... place only the tiniest fig leaf of a story on a panoramic canvas of the gory, gross and repellent.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, "Martyrs" mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump.

| Jan 21, 2016

Unfortunately, in goosing the momentum, the creators of the film have lost the soul of what was essential to this horrific tale.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2016

Another slash-and-dice programmer with no redeeming factors whatsoever.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Proves only that what is repellent in French is equally so in English.

| Jan 19, 2016

Rarely does it threaten to be the scarring and unsettling experience Laugier's darker and grimier film is, warts and all.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2016