Erotic thrillers are a time-tested genre, but this effort, scripted by Wesley Strick, is neither erotic nor thrilling.

| Feb 5, 2015

This new iteration proves such a dour hodgepodge of bad behavior, bald-faced misogyny and ping-ponging alliances, it's more alienating than alluring.

| Feb 5, 2015

The Loft is a film that can't decide what it wants. It's a male fantasy, and a cautionary tale. It's sleazy in concept, and timid in execution. It punishes its protagonists for their transgressions, then lets them off the hook.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 5, 2015

There's no redeeming this softcore nonsense, which plays like a script that Storage Wars stumbled across in Joe Eszterhas's old locker.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 5, 2015

The twisty plot translates to any culture where swinging-d--- businessmen cheat on their wives -- which is to say, any culture.

| Feb 5, 2015

The Loft's boorish leads aren't sensible enough to be worth caring about, making the film's character-driven conclusion feel like a self-defeating cop-out.

| Feb 2, 2015

Whodunit? Even the filmmakers don't seem quite sure. A waste of a perfectly good premise.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 2, 2015

Predictably, some items planted early in the film ... pop up in the third act with all the subtlety of a blast from Chekhov's gun.

| Feb 1, 2015

Hollywood adds to its trend of awful throwbacks to trashy '90s movies with "The Loft."

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 30, 2015

The more we get to know this crew, the harder it is to care about any of them; the men are all portrayed as lecherous horndogs, while the women are either shrews, ice queens or self-professed whores.

| Jan 30, 2015

...offers so many shifty glances and shifting allegiances that it nearly qualifies as a tongue-in-cheek parody of the modern erotic thriller.

| Jan 30, 2015

Whatever fun there might be in the guesswork is wiped away by the realization that Van Looy has made a puzzle for a puzzle's sake, to no discernible thematic end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2015

A shabby bore that promises viewers any number of kinky thrills and then proceeds to deflate those expectations.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 30, 2015

It's as nasty as its heroes, and isn't competent enough to know it.

| Jan 29, 2015