Three freshman students are struggling to find a place to belong when they hear a siren call... only to find themselves painfully out of their depths.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The filmmakers find their way back in time to provide a humdinger of a third-act twist.

| Dec 15, 2020

Pledge is (sometimes frustratingly) ambiguous ... I have to give it credit, though. It's a scrappy little thriller that kept me entertained and enthralled the entire time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Capitalist imagery is used throughout to parallel frat culture's devious inner workings to that of capitalism, showing similarity between two cruel systems of exploitation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

As nauseating as digesting rat soup.

| Original Score: C | Apr 2, 2019

Pledge isn't great, but it knows how to work viewers over without forcing them to wallow in complete depravity and it leaves you curious to see what Robbins and Weiner come up with next.

| Feb 7, 2019

[Pledge's] main goal is to create a sense of dawning terror from the lengths to which these wealthy kids plan to push their charges, and the amount of misery those younger teens are willing to endure for the reward of being inducted...

| Feb 7, 2019

It never finds the satirical edge that might have counterbalanced all the mirthless sadism - American Psycho this isn't - but Pledge at least has the restraint to remain satisfyingly cryptic and volatile.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 1, 2019

A lean and mean shocker that tells its tale of collegiate hazing run amuck with brute efficiency.

| Jan 17, 2019

As a video-nasty take on hazing gone to stunning extremes, this indie gem ... does pretty well for itself.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 17, 2019

The characters and premise of "Pledge" are over-the-top, but the movie understands that - whether comedy or horror - all these stories are really about a desperate yearning for belonging.

| Jan 16, 2019

Lean and mildly entertaining with unflinching violence, but it's ultimately too shallow and offers very little that's surprising, clever or inventive.

| Original Score: 5.17 | Jan 14, 2019

A purposefully exploitive mixed bag to say the least.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2019

The guys eventually fight back... By that point, though, Pledge hasn't given a single character enough of a brain or a spine to care.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 11, 2019

"Pledge" bends now and then, but never breaks, staying alert with grotesqueries and panic, presenting a compelling mess of virginal lust, cackling machismo, and fraternity menace.

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2019

If you like your torture movies tight, twisty and decently executed, then "Pledge" is for you.

| Jan 10, 2019

At a time when all kinds of boys' clubs are being dissected in every available form of media, the hand-me-down visions in Pledge aren't nearly as edgy as they intend to be.

| Jan 10, 2019

This movie is sometimes very silly, but often it's rather intense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2019

At its core, Pledge is an uncomfortable examination of the conflicts that can arise when desire and power intersect in bro-social situations.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2019

With just enough violence to appal but never sensationalise, Pledge's stomach churning take on hazing rituals and the powerful men moving through the shadows

| Jan 7, 2019