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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Mesmerizing? You bet. Thought-provoking? Certainly. Comforting? Sure. Like a swan dive into a pool of spikes and razor wire. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The shock imperative takes on a life of its own and floats away from the lengthy setup. Read more
Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune: Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A great, sick rush with a kicker on the level of The Vanishing. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A graphic lesson in what happens when you treat women as objects, even objects of reverence. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: There will be many people who consider Audition an atrocity, and a few who find it a stimulating cinema experience. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: It turns into a hallucinatory nightmare of female revenge that will pin back the audience's eyelids. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A lethally poised Venus flytrap of a movie. Read more