I Spit on Your Grave 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Female-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, Grave is extremely efficient grindhouse. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Shorn of much of its psychosexual menace, the new Grave is gelded. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable -- yet still vapid and repulsive -- while also, in a perverse way, selling it out. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: This is a remake of Meir Zarchi's infamous 1978 exercise I Spit on Your Grave, made back when torture porn was readily identified as disgusting and worthy of outrage. Now it's just one more movie in which genitals are sliced. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Exploitation remake delivers sadism and gore but little else. Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Certainly, the rape and killings are more intricate, graphic, excruciating and nauseating. Hooray. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: I Spit on Your Grave is exploitation pure and simple. But it's artistically redeeming exploitation. If you can handle it, see it. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film I Spit on Your Grave adds yet another offense: a phony moral equivalency. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Just piles imaginary atrocities on top of real ones, and then halfheartedly claim that it means something. Well, it doesn't. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In addition to all the obvious things that are disgusting about this movie, I Spit on Your Grave is trying to get us to hate each other. Hate it instead. It makes more sense and the hatred is much more deserved. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Neither boring enough to qualify as pornography nor vital enough to generate a controversy. Read more

Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: An attempt to trade on its predecessor's reputation without really grappling with the questions it raises, Monroe's version merely seems shallow, cynical and extremely ugly. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: By honing the jagged edges of Meir Zarchi's cheap and nasty rape-revenge shocker into slick entertainment, this unwelcome remake improves technically on the 1978 original, while retaining all that was sleazy and repellent... Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: When every injury is repaid with interest, this self-destroying work has nowhere to go but to the credits. Such symmetry is a dismal, barbarian sort of perfection. Read more