Revenge's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Crush
Just when you thought rape-revenge movies had nothing left to say along comes Revenge ? which transcends mere cleverness with a thoughtful, challenging approach to a worn-out concept.
The Playlist
Revenge is a hugely satisfying horror movie, a real achievement on the parts of all involved.
Cinemanía
Ultraviolent, dirty and as provocative as it is necessary: Fargeat and Lutz sign the western of feminine (and feminist) action definitive.
The A.V. Club
The film works best if you approach it as a fantasy, with Jen as a near-supernatural angel of vengeance; otherwise, it?s easy to get hung up on the inconsistencies as the action grows increasingly over-the-top.
The Hollywood Reporter
Fargeat acknowledges that with a brazen wink, thumbing her nose at credulity as her naive Barbie-doll heroine becomes a vengeful, quick-thinking terminator, like a desert snake shedding its skin for greater speed.
Variety
The situation couldn?t be more base ? she wants vengeance; they want to kill her ? but that only liberates Fargeat and her actors, Lutz in particular, to play up their roles with tenacity and grit.