The Loft 2014

Joe Leydon, Variety: Predictably, some items planted early in the film ... pop up in the third act with all the subtlety of a blast from Chekhov's gun. Read more

Katie Rife, AV Club: The Loft is a film that can't decide what it wants. It's a male fantasy, and a cautionary tale. It's sleazy in concept, and timid in execution. It punishes its protagonists for their transgressions, then lets them off the hook. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: There's no redeeming this softcore nonsense, which plays like a script that Storage Wars stumbled across in Joe Eszterhas's old locker. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The twisty plot translates to any culture where swinging-d--- businessmen cheat on their wives -- which is to say, any culture. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Erotic thrillers are a time-tested genre, but this effort, scripted by Wesley Strick, is neither erotic nor thrilling. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: This new iteration proves such a dour hodgepodge of bad behavior, bald-faced misogyny and ping-ponging alliances, it's more alienating than alluring. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Whodunit? Even the filmmakers don't seem quite sure. A waste of a perfectly good premise. Read more

Andrew Lapin, NPR: It's as nasty as its heroes, and isn't competent enough to know it. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Hollywood adds to its trend of awful throwbacks to trashy '90s movies with "The Loft." Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The more we get to know this crew, the harder it is to care about any of them; the men are all portrayed as lecherous horndogs, while the women are either shrews, ice queens or self-professed whores. Read more

Simon Abrams, Village Voice: The Loft's boorish leads aren't sensible enough to be worth caring about, making the film's character-driven conclusion feel like a self-defeating cop-out. Read more