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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: [It] suggests only that ferreting out new ways to inflict pain requires more imagination than anyone on hand realized. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's a revolting horror film that wastes the talents and good looks of Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe in favor of severed penises and other violent atrocities performed on a kitchen table. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The torture-porn label would stick if wasn't so hard to imagine anyone getting much out of it. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Ugh. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Its cliches grow slightly funny. But not funny enough to make the endless torture scenes bearable. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The flick gets off on surgical slicings and an overall Fincheresque gloominess, the latter becoming an unwitting joke. Read more
Benjamin Mercer, Village Voice: Lean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony. Read more