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  • 88
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    You can't look away, not only because the carnage is so masterfully photographed, but because the director sucks you into his bleak, poetic, even sensible vision of cosmic brutality. Not for the faint-hearted! Read full review

  • 80
    TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

    The only constant in Park's brilliantly cruel world is this: No matter how badly things seem to be going, there's a twist of fate lurking around the next curve that will make them worse. Read full review

  • 75
    Premiere | Aaron Hillis

    Perhaps with an open and willing mind, you'll also see the vast difference between this wily consciousness experiment and, say, Rob Zombie's new box of schlocks. Read full review

  • 75
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) |

    Bold, intelligent and provocative. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    Savage yet spellbinding. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    The violence in the final 45 minutes of Mr. Vengeance is tough to watch. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune |

    It's all a little ultra-cool for me. Shakespeare was right. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold, not cool. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    This ultra-violent revenge thriller is far more notable for its baroque excesses than coherence or credibility. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Degenerates in the second half. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    So badly told that it ends up dissecting a corruption that exudes from nowhere but itself. Read full review

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