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(1 - 9) of 9 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1   2/4 "Becomes less interesting the more it tries to be provocative -- and watching the lead actresses get beaten up for 90 minutes or so is far from compelling."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 4/5 "Intense, disorienting, unsettling, upsetting, polarising - Martyrs is all these things but it is also intelligent, moving and strangely uplifting. If you want to be put through the wringer by a film, make it this one."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 3/4 "...ultimately comes off as an unusually provocative horror effort that's sure to leave viewers thinking and talking about it long after the end credits have rolled."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "Laugier's ideas are so thin that most of the second half involves Morjana Alaoui vomiting in between getting punched in the gut and smacked in the face."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 8/10 "Martyrs se veut un film vicieux qui ose énormément. Parfois même trop, d'ailleurs."   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 80/100 "Perhaps more than any other horror film, Martyrs demonstrates the range of the genre's capabilities to find ways to excite, provoke, and disturb us."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "You don't have to be Catholic to shudder at Pascal Laugier's bitterly apocalyptic Martyrs, but it helps."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 5/5 "The film's sense of philosophy is what elevates Martyrs from the "torture porn" ghetto and places it alongside more intellectually unsettling films by men like Michael Haneke, Pier Pasolini, and Gaspar Noe."   The Horror Geek   Mike Bracken 4/5 "French horror cinema that doesn't shy away from the rough stuff and aims to bring a few extra layers to the typically anemic slash-and-smash concept."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg  (1 - 9) of 9 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1