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

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

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

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

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

It's a somewhat blunt and righteously angry admonishment of the Greek state, but its shocking exploration of economic debasement helps retain the momentum right up to it's shocking double denouement.

| Sep 7, 2013

A precision-tooled portrait of a hermetically closed family unit.

| Sep 7, 2013

Committed tone and immaculate craft should ensure ample fest exposure for the pic's predictable perversions.

| Sep 6, 2013