The disappointment of The Belko Experiment, then, is that it shifts so abruptly into horror-film terrain that it fails to examine the way this office has brainwashed these characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2017

Going about its grisly business with undisguised relish, the film comes closer to the chilly spirit of science fiction writer J.G. Ballard than director Ben Wheatley did in his recent, overwrought adaptation of Ballard's novel High-Rise.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2017

The Belko Experiment isn't much more than a good time at the theater, but it isn't really trying to be and doesn't really have to be.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jun 13, 2017

A lean, mean, bloody comedy of the darkest order, Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment is pure genre fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2017

Good, clean - well, not clean - generic fun from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean, bolstered by a solid ensemble cast and impressive bloodwork.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2017

It is directed by Greg McLean and has an energetic performance by John Gallagher Jr as the unsplattable hero, but we've seen this Battle Royale or Hunger Games scenario too many times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2017

A brutal, bloody battle royale that glides along nicely until a disappointing dip in the second half. Still, there are plenty of positive results from this experiment, especially for gore fans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2017

The Belko Experiment offers an intensified allegory of today's world of work - as well as the thrill of the hunt - all in an amusingly banalised milieu of lobbies, lifts and cubicles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2017

As a parable about the inherently dehumanizing aspects of the rat race, it's bloody good fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2017

It could have used a few more weeks on the drafting table, to sharpen its ideas and give it priorities other than gore.

| Mar 23, 2017

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT isn't the type of horror film that should remain in your mind long after you've watched it, though it's taut, gripping, and certainly frightening at times.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 22, 2017

The unsatisfying result of all the berserk paranoia is predictable.Talk about a take-no-prisoners plot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2017

The real horror is, is this a more realistic depiction of the workplace than the comedies that have come before it?

| Mar 17, 2017

While Gunn and McLean don't rewrite the company handbook, they still do a good enough job bullet pointing the important stuff to make reading it worthwhile.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2017

Vicious, mostly satisfying action.

| Mar 17, 2017

Every time Belko gets into a groove, with some fun plot twists or inventively gory moments, it pauses to make some point or another about the modern workplace that feels at least a decade out of date.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 17, 2017

If the film never gets beyond a sophomore dorm-level probing of human nature, it's still darkly compelling on its own terms. And it winds its way toward some truly shocking twists.

| Mar 16, 2017

For all its promise to be a wry commentary on the savagery of office politics, "The Belko Experiment" is more like an experiment in how many cracked-open skulls can be crammed into one movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 16, 2017

By the end of the film, you're left with the unshakable feeling that everyone involved, from actors to filmmakers to the audience, is, and should have been, better than material like this.

| Mar 16, 2017

You may think of Dilbert one minute, the Nuremberg defense the next. No, really.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 16, 2017