Raze 2013

Sara Stewart, New York Post: The lack of story and relentless suffering make "Raze" appealing for hard-core genre fans only. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: The performances and plotting are so impoverished that the picture deserves to be called "The From Hunger Games," and then promptly forgotten. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: This brutally monotonous actioner centers around an all-female fight-to-the-death contest, but viewers of either gender may find themselves dying of boredom. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A brain-dead exploitation flick in which barefoot, white-tank-top-clad women beat each other to death. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Prurient nonsense, a film only a couple of notches up from the women-in-prison films that were popular years and years ago. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A women-in-prison flick hawking its exploitation wares more to sadists than sex fiends. Read more

Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times: "Raze" is a sweaty, queasy, bruising experience - and a superbly crafted film. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: "Raze" is a sadist's idea of entertainment, mixed-martial-arts without the art, misogyny without the guilt. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: The entertainment value of the violence trumps most of the larger meaning, and the film exploits its characters just as they do their prisoners. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: This ugly, dull and idiotic actioner doesn't know if it wants be fun or grim. It winds up simply being deplorable exploitation. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: If you can stand to watch this movie -- a big if -- there is food for thought here about the subjugation and exploitation of women, the limits of psychological and physical endurance, and more. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: There's enough craft and intelligence at work here that you can't dismiss "Raze" as meaningless sadism, but not nearly enough to make it worth the unpleasantness of actually watching it. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Sad to say, director Josh C. Waller and his crew don't deliver the goods. At least Waller knows what he's got in Bell. Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Girl fight! If that phrase makes your pulse quicken, Raze may be the movie for you. Or, it may cure you forever of the desire to see women growl, bite, and brawl. Read more