The Green Inferno 2013

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Finish your popcorn early if you're going to "The Green Inferno," and save the bucket to barf in. Read more

Geoff Berkshire, Variety: A project that boasts all the appeal (and aroma) of a carcass rotting in the rainforest. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: The Green Inferno fancies itself a gory skewering of what Roth has repeatedly referred to as "slacktivism." But do his heroes/victims, who at one point put themselves directly in the line of fire, really qualify? Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: The Green Inferno is less a riff on spaghetti splatter flicks like Cannibal Holocaust than a desperate-to-shock pastiche of guts and gore served with a wink to audiences with strong stomachs. You know who you are. Read more

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times: The film is measured and executed effectively to satiate horror fans' bloodlust, yet its underlying messages are just so repugnant. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A nasty treat for those with strong stomachs. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: The Green Inferno can easily be dismissed as juvenilia, both in its sneering rebuke of political correctness and in its zeal for unearthing a horror tradition that should have been laid to rest. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: The movie is a revisiting of what is often called the cannibal subgenre, a vile strain of films in which Westerners encounter tribes in the jungle. Read more

Michael Ordona, San Francisco Chronicle: "The Green Inferno" is a breezy college comedy. Until it's not. Then it's really, really not. Read more

Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail: Whatever criticism you want to throw at Roth, at least the director stays true to his singular, repulsive vision: His cannibals-gone-wild tale is a work of unrelenting and squishy terror. Read more

Inkoo Kang, TheWrap: Eli Roth's faux-smart, long-shelved, and exploitative-as-hell cannibal tale "The Green Inferno" is a remarkably perfect example of horror's unexamined white privilege. Read more

Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap: A serviceable reintroduction to Roth's idiosyncratic brand of horror, but it fails to either offend or exhilarate, instead chronicling the misadventures of a group of student activists with more technical acuity than singularity. Read more

Michael Nordine, Village Voice: The more brutal this becomes, the less anything other than blood and guts seems to matter. Just because watching every gory detail of a man getting torn limb from limb turns the stomach doesn't mean it quickens the pulse. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The point is to feel something visceral, extreme. Eli Roth is extremely extreme. My head is off to him. Read more