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John Hartl, Seattle Times: At heart, it's a sophisticated variation on Friday the 13th, a splatter film with a slightly more interesting collection of targets. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Funny and scary in deftly equal measure. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: For decades horny teens have been the slasher movie's victims of choice, but this darkly funny British import finds more deserving targets: the sales team of an international weapons manufacturer. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's remarkable how much just a modicum of wit can spice up the standard backwoods slice-and-dice. Scaring people with a horror film is easy; entertaining them takes a little skill. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The filmmakers want to have it both ways -- the funny and the sadistic -- but rarely do so at the same time with any success. Read more
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: They say, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard," but this cheeky gore fest proves that balancing the two is the trickiest act of all. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The cast shows spark and gusto, especially Laura Harris as a vulnerable yet intrepid survivor type and Danny Dyer as a bent druggie who straightens out long enough to fight back. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: So there's still a smart office-horror movie left to be made. In the meantime, Severance is just another paycheck. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: For the odd at heart, it will be worth the wait. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The chintzy characters, hair-raising deaths, and one spectacular rocket-launcher joke aren't enough to give Hostel a run for its blood, but they will keep the desensitized occupied. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It is wonderfully wry, and contains some great gags. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Christopher Smith's Severance is an odd but entirely welcome duck: a horror spoof that strays into zones of political and ethical consequence, without ever becoming mired in them. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The irony is thick, and the deaths are brutal, as horror and humor are spliced with social commentary. The British film sends up scary movies while building characters whose fates matter to the audience. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: You'll need a strong stomach, but director Christopher Smith mixes lots of laughs into the gore. Despite its predictable finish, Severance is bloody good fun. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: A sloppy, implausible slasher movie. Read more
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Severance will have you laughing one minute and feeling terribly unsettled the next. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The pacing is uneven, leading to a bumpy road where laughter and gore sometimes complement each other and sometimes are at odds. This makes Severance more of a mixed bag than an unqualified success. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: If you can handle the warts-and-all filmmaking, Severance is definitely worth your time, if not your $9.50. In other words, wait a few months and definitely check it out as a rental. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Splatter comedy meets comic splatter in this brash crossover film that puts seven white-collar workers in the scary wilds of Hungary where psycho killer Russian ex-military lurk. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: You got your humour, you got your horror, simply ratchet up both and, voila, Severance -- or, as the billing not inaccurately puts it, The Office Meets Deliverance. Read more
Rob Salem, Toronto Star: Like Shaun of the Dead, the movie enthusiastically embraces all the grotesque cliches we love and have come to expect from the form -- turning several on their ear. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Blending fierce horror and sly humour, Christopher Smith's confident follow-up to the more generic Creep marks a quantum leap forward for the young British filmmaker. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Unlike [Dr. Strangelove], to say nothing of a whole spate of recent movies (including The Host and Land of the Dead) that have employed genre as a means of social criticism, Severance isn't a sustained work of imagination. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Put it on a level with a mid-series Halloween. Read more