Return to Sender, starring Rosamund Pike, isn't quite what it seems...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 18, 2021

Despite its occasional missteps, this hybrid of Gone Girl and Misery is bizarrely compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2019

Even Rosamund Pike is recycling her performance, and she knows it; it's simply a Gone Girl rip off that will lose even the most forgiving viewer in the third act.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2019

There is nothing that can save it, not even the star quality of Rosamund Pike herself. If only Return to Sender could itself be sent right back to the studio from whence it came.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Return to Sender is an equally repulsive and dreadful movie that deserves to be more than spoiled -- it should be murdered, buried, and never discussed again.

| Original Score: F | Feb 24, 2016

The audience, though, will surely guess the twist which is coming.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2015

Whilst there's probably not enough story here to warrant the film's admittedly short running time, when it reaches its heightened emotional ending, you have to hand it to screenwriters Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett for trying something different.

| Oct 7, 2015

Her performance makes this film digestible, but also makes us yearn for her to receive better roles in the future.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Sep 23, 2015

... a slow-burn female payback thriller in the tradition of Siegel's 'Beguiled' and Miike's masterful 'Audition' ... definitely deserved better than being summarily shipped to Vido-on-Demand Land.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2015

the filmmakers keep the film's narrative trajectory purposefully muddy, which has the potential to create real intrigue-if you go into the film fully blind

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2015

Because sometimes subtle symbolism needs repeating... she waits for a return visit from her rapist by tending her front garden.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 22, 2015

More sleazy than suspenseful, the film attempts to navigate some dark and morally complex territory while lacking the justification for doing so.

| Aug 21, 2015

Sub-par direction ruins whatever creativity and originality could be gleaned from the film's odd approach to the rape-revenge formula.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 17, 2015

In a bland and lifeless, wishy-washy state, "Return to Sender" proves to be nothing but dead air, an entirely too predictable, slow-paced, and misguided genre effort.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 14, 2015

Pike and audiences alike deserve far better than this agonizingly pointless and amateurishly made exploitation flick. Just take the title's advice.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 14, 2015

[It] seems to exist only to answer the unasked question "What would "I Spit on Your Grave" have been like if the main character had been Martha Stewart?"

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 14, 2015

Mikati never settles on whether he's steering an identity crisis drama or an exploitative vengeance fantasy.

| Aug 13, 2015

For most of the way, "Return to Sender" merges creepy and sexy to good effect, thanks to a close-to-the-vest performance by Rosamund Pike, the missing wife of "Gone Girl."

| Aug 13, 2015

Neither director Fouad Mikati nor writers Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett seem to have found a new angle [on the rape-revenge genre].

| Aug 13, 2015

The plot twist is telegraphed far in advance, and everything in between is an unpleasant waiting game of watching a rape survivor warm up to her rapist...Please forward Return to Sender to the trash.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 13, 2015