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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Du Welz has definite visual-dramatic talent. (Calvaire was a Cannes festival pick.) But, like Norman Bates' car, he need to get pulled out of the swamp. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: What sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Director Fabrice Du Welz doesn't reinvent the backwoods-freakshow formula, but there is something undeniably entertaining about violent psychos who are also committed art lovers. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The very notion that movies about torture are considered 'horror,' and are more profitable now per foot of celluloid than any other type of independent film, is what's qualmy. Read more