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Movie Overview
Cast
Monica Bellucci
Vincent Cassel
Albert Dupontel
Director
Gaspar Noe
MPAA Rating
Unrated
Irreversible (2003)
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OFCS Rating: 68% Fresh
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"Dolorosa pero obligada, y de factura excelente."
Cinenganos
Alex Ramirez
2.5/4
"Strangely enough, this collection of gimmickry, brutality, and hollow stylings is best at its least visceral."
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
C
"Noé is here to remind us the world is ugly. That'll be ten bucks, please, and would you like some popcorn with your nausea?"
AboutFilm.com
Carlo Cavagna
"The emotional (and ethical) catch is this: though the characters are unable to see beyond their separate, present moments, you know the fallouts from jump."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
C
"All style and shock."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
2/4
"Gaspar Noé positions
Irréversible
as a structuralist countdown, but a structuralist wank job is more like it."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
"Es difícil recordar otra experiencia tan perturbadora, en la que los recursos de lenguaje colocan al espectador en un estado sensorial difícil de explicar con palabras."
Uruguay Total
Enrique Buchichio
B-
"Offers much to ponder about the nature of fate, the futility of revenge and the fragility of life."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
A-
"It should not be dismissed as cheap gimmickry or a shock tactic."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
D-
"Irredeemable...just a pointlessly nasty violence-and-vengeance tale told backwards for 'effect.'"
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3.5/4
"Those up to a challenge who attend with an open mind will find something to gnaw at the soul."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
3.5/4
"A project of vast extremes, a flagrant affirmation of absolute darkness and light."
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
8/10
"
Irreversible
overdoes things, but the experience of watching it is an unforgettable one."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
3.5/4
"The unbroken shots give this nightmare a lucid, inevitable, and inescapable feel that goes a long way toward selling the horror that's presented."
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
7/10
"This movie is over-the-top and infuriating at times, but in the end, I consider it a success on some very ****ed up level."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
9/10
"Dizzying, shocking and ****ing beautiful"
Planet Sick-Boy
Jon Popick
4/4
"Noé’s initially disconcerting stylistic choices and the extreme violence are justified when you look at the bigger picture."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
A-
"...one must remember that director Gaspar Noe is presenting fictional images to support his cynical response to Stanley Kubrick's hopeful "2001.""
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
"This isn’t a film you merely watch -- it’s a film you survive... or you don’t, if you walk out of it."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
1.5/5
"
Irréversible
has virtually nothing unique to say about 21st century human relations or society."
Filmcritic.com
Nick Schager
5/5
"Quando o filme chegou ao fim, confesso que chorei – não pelo que havia acontecido, mas sim em função do que ainda iria acontecer."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
5/5
"Noe is a confrontational master, no question."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
1/5
"... film does make one point beautifully: no matter which way a story is told, a bad script cannot be salvaged."
JWR
S. James Wegg
B
"Gaspar Noe uses the cinema as an assault weapon..."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
C
"This story told in natural progression would be far too ironic and predictable to hold our interest."
Eclipse Magazine
Sean O'Connell
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
10/10
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Modamag.com
Brian Orndorf
1/4
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