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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A film of carefully strained pulp and rigorously controlled intrigue, the Austrian revenge drama Revanche, which is really about the dividing line between vengeance and forgiveness, belongs to a neo-noir universe where all the classical genre laws apply. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The title means 'revenge', but that's a deliberate simplification; Mr. Spielmann's film is full of surprises and, in its distinctive way, full of life. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: There's a moral beauty in the movie's consideration of violence and vengeance. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Intense and emotional. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Writer-director Gotz Spielmann (Antares) avoids the clutter and manipulation of most thrillers, escalating tension almost solely through the characters' turbulent emotions. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The performers do terrifically understated work. Even in a scene of angry, anguished coupling, silence and stillness persist. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Revanche, a recent Austrian entry in the foreign film Oscar race, is both shocking in its starkness and subtle in its low seethe of dangerous intent. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As long as Revanche focuses on the relationship between Tamara (Irina Potapenko), an indentured Ukrainian prostitute, and Alex (Johannes Krisch), the ex-con gofer and would-be tough guy who wants to help her escape, it's riveting. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The coincidences might be too much for some, but viewers who can get past them will be treated to a suspenseful, well-acted, crisply photographed character study. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: One of the most compelling assemblages of character studies I have seen so far in this too-often-dismal year of moviegoing. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: There's real biblical tragedy, and redemption, in Spielmann's fine, sad, suspenseful film. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Revanche involves a rare coming together of a male's criminal nature and a female's deep needs, entwined with a first-rate thriller. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Revanche is an extraordinary film, mythic in feeling, about an ex-con who falls in love with a prostitute and how their lives intertwine fatefully with that of a policeman and his wife. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This cool, tense Austrian thriller follows a Ukrainian hooker and her petty criminal boyfriend as they try to escape their dead-end lives. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The title Revanche means 'retribution,' and this Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film is a European extract of neo-noir, like a Bavarian Body Heat or a Teutonic 21 Grams. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: A surprisingly unruffled tale of love, thievery, murder and revenge. Read more
Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: The plot might have yielded a generic erotic thriller if Revanche were made by rougher hands. Instead it becomes something more sophisticated thanks to the efforts of writer-director Gotz Spielmann and a superb cast. Read more
Alissa Simon, Variety: All actors turn in fine, naturalistic perfs, but it would be remiss not to remark on 83-year-old Thanheiser's profoundly moving turn as the grandfather. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Directed with terrific control and economy of means by Spielmann -- a film and theater vet who has had only one previous movie distributed in the U.S. -- Revanche gets its hooks into you early and leaves them there/ Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking. Read more