Though beautifully shot, and with great artistic merit, Miss Violence is also an unremittingly harsh, disturbing movie to watch, and it leaves its taint behind in the memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

A cliché-ridden slice of miserablist European exploitation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2019

Though people may be tempted to frame this story in the context of Greece's debt crisis, it's important to remember Miss Violence is about power not about money.

| Oct 26, 2018

Ever since Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth wowed audiences back in 2009, Greek cinema has become the new Michael Haneke.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 12, 2014

Even fans of chillingly oblique new Greek cinema (see Dogtooth and Alps) will find this pitch-black drama utterly terrifying simply because it doesn't look like a horror movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2014

The audience are made to suffer through scenes that range from the uncomfortable to the unwatchable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2014

Miss Violence is a grim tale of family dysfunction that also stands as an allegory about moral and economic decline in Greek society.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2014

Deeply unnerving, yet it borders on a salacious exploitation of the everyday horrors it means to condemn.

| Jun 20, 2014

It (self-evidently) does not have the humour of those movies by Lanthimos and Tsangari and by that token, less of their richness and inventiveness. But its force can't be doubted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2014

One girl begins the movie by throwing herself off a balcony. It gets murkier from then on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2014

This grim depiction of a seriously damaged Athens family dispenses with any feel-good niceties to deliver a no-holds barred blow to the senses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2014

Considerably easier to talk about than it is to watch, and talking about it is no picnic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2014

From the not-so-happy birthday that opens the film ... up to the harrowing final revelation, Miss Violence fulfils the grisly promise of its title.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Part of the intriguing Greek new wave of brutal cinema that rages against the country's current woes, but not one of the movement's best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2014

[A] chillingly controlled family drama ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

A commanding, troubling domestic horror that should launch a long career for Avranas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

Avranas's opening employs the rigorous aesthetic that dominates the work of his Greek compatriots, signifying that the characters live in a realm of cultivated artifice.

| Apr 8, 2014

...it is, in the end, impossible to label Miss Violence as anything more than a misguided art-house disaster.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 29, 2013

hilst being a technically competent film with a great cast Avranas's attempt at dealing with incest and child abuse nevertheless remains an ill-judged and highly unpalatable piece of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2013

Could not have been better acted and constructed to achieve its grim intensity. You'll recognise the tone as resembling that of the group of Greek talents that brought us Dogtooth, but it is a more conventional work that harks back as much to Attic tragedy

| Sep 13, 2013