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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 53% Rotten Page   1   "Roth proves unable to control the tone of his premise, in the end pandering too much to the male adolescent audience that he at first seems to be satirising."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel C "The PR hype machine loves Eli Roth, and I'm sure he loves it right back."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2.5/5 "a horror movie cannot run on shock value alone."   Filmcritic.com   Blake French "Paxton is suddenly the Last Girl in a movie about cocky boys who become vulnerable beyond their wildest dreams."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "Viewers check in... and just as quickly check out!"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...while there are few enjoyably over-the-top moments of gore, the movie is - on the whole - pretty tame..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3.5/4 "A disturbing, uncompromising descent into the blackest corners of human nature."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Quienes busquen lo más parecido a una pesadilla a cambio del precio de una entrada, saldrán bastante satisfechos."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Even if this type of entertainment doesn't entertain you, ya gotta admit, it's pretty slickly done."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. C "Skillfully made...but basically this is a movie that traffics in sadism as much as its villains do, and your reaction to it will pretty much depend on how you feel about that."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "Let's hope 2006's first horror film isn't an indication of where the genre is going this year."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "Despite its ruthless drive-in shocks, Hostel actually makes an intriguing point about the nature of pleasure for its own sake and the constant desire to increase sensory intake."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Hostel is depraved, sick and disgusting - which means teenagers should love it."   SA Movie & DVD Magazine   James O'Ehley 3/4 "When extreme, body-crunching violence is inflicted on these pigs, the playing field gets leveled."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp "[T]here's plenty here that might make a person puke -- if not the torture, then perhaps the scenes in which the actors themselves puke, one of them sputtering out his stomach's contents past a ball-gag."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox "Roth effectively uses light, color and sound to evoke extremely disturbing images, scenes so intense and disturbing they make your palms sweat."   Light Views   John Larsen "A gory, bloody, disgusting good time."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/5 "I may not get the DVD for the sake of the film, but rather to show my kids and dissuade them from ever backpacking across Europe."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2.5/4 "If you're fascinated with butcher work and chopped up corpses, this is the movie for you."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C "...nothing but a reined in gorefest for aficionados of torture,, and even they won't be happy until the director's cut DVD is issued."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/5 "While still a flawed exercise, I do appreciate what Eli Roth is trying to do and he's obviously a fan of the genre."   Monsters At Play   Lawrence P. Raffel 3/4 "It's a nasty piece of work, and work it does."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 0/4 "Pure exploitation, ineptly made, and completely repulsive."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik F "This is a vile exploitation film, and a shoddily-made one, that's half softcore porn and half horror porn."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[S]adistic... and ridiculously happy-ending-ish..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "Wants to be preeminent shock cinema, but doesn't have the [courage] to fully follow through on its promise of unbridled carnage."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "Ao apelar para nossos impulsos mais baixos (ainda que inegavelmente naturais), adota uma postura niilista repulsiva."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "There isn't really much suspense or scariness in this film, but it is seriously nightmarish"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline A- "...Roth has crafted a supremely political film, one that lambasts the jocular xenophobia of the typical American..."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte 5/5 "A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 4/5 "This is a grim, gory, and unapologetically grungy piece of "survival horror." I dug it."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 3.5/4 "One of the best horror movie since Craven's Scream!"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson 2/4 "Even though Hostel is certainly better than last year's Saw II, it's ultimately not very frightening -- just plain gross."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 2/4 "It's posed itself as a piece owing a debt to the Japanese shock cinema of Takashi Miike when it really owes more to the gore/schlock cinema of Herschel Gordon Lewis."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2.5/4 "A thoroughly intriguing twist on the horror genre."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 53% Rotten Page   1