Matthew Vadum

I understand the “r*pe and revenge” idea but the storyline wasn’t developed properly. When she finally springs the trap, so to speak, it came as a complete surprise and was unsatisfying, like she just suddenly went nuts.

A cinematic atrocity. I’m fine with violent movies but here the violence serves no purpose except to shock. Two seemingly polite young men take a family hostage and torture them to death. There is no resolution at the end after they drown the mother for no apparent reason except maybe for kicks. We don’t learn why they did this. They’re just evil. It’s essentially a slasher film with better acting. At the end one is left with an empty feeling.

I was conflicted after the first viewing but then this film grew on me. It has a good flow to it. A tragedy in the end.

As Sam Lahy wrote in a review here, "Gorgeous sets and costumes, remarkable performances by Stone, Defoe and a scene-stealing Ruffalo cannot quite save this self-aware oddity of a movie." What is the point of this film? I haven't figured it out.

Fascinating and awful. Like “Showgirls,” I watch it once in a while for a giggle.

Major tear jerker. A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. Woman’s house is foreclosed on because of a mistake. She pressures the new owners to give the house back, becomes suicidal, and then everything spirals out of control. As the Bard would say, all are punish-ed.

I thought it would be cheesy, and there definitely was some fromage, but it actually has some scary moments.

Well, that was brutal. I guess I'll give it four stars but I may later change my mind. Did she actually "unalive" herself or was it all a fantasy? I'm not sure.

A sensuous, emotionally resonant film that hits all the right notes. An enjoyable mixture of tragedy and beauty as an ageless woman is forced to confront her past.

All around bad. And I don’t even like Dubya.