13 2010

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A tense, paranoid nightmare with a chilly metaphysical overview has been trampled into a blustering, bad cartoon. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Aside from some character-defining flashbacks, a godawful score and sweat-enhancing color photography, it's the same movie as before -- a divertingly tense yet superficial time-waster. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Making a film about the cutthroat world of Russian Roulette is a little like making a gambling thriller about the card game War. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Gela Babluani's English-language remake of his French debut loses the source's gritty, mysterious gloom. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: "13'' is Gela Babluani's American remake of his successful 2005 Georgian-language film "13 Tzameti.'' He should have left well enough alone. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: A starry cast and glossier production values simply work against the black-and-white original's strengths in this stillborn thriller. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: [A] half-hearted redundancy, which often looks and sounds like something Charles Bronson paid bills with in 1979. Read more