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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFemale-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, "Grave" is extremely efficient grindhouse. If there is any message here at all, it's don't mess with a novelist: being creative is her job.
- 50VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibIts straight-ahead rape, humiliation and ingenious revenge competently executed but not aestheticized, the essential grunginess never overly slicked up.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumNow it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIn terms of real horror, nevermind sexual-politics provocation, "Grave" can neither re-create its predecessor's impact nor compete with stranger new beasts like Lars von Trier's "Antichrist."
- 25The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasNot surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable-yet still vapid and repulsive-while also, in a perverse way, selling it out.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAs vile, unredeeming and thoroughly unpleasant experiences go, I Spit on Your Grave at least has one thing interesting about it. It's a document of the most paranoid fantasies that urban, Northern people have about a rural Southern people.
- 20Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonWhen every injury is repaid with interest, this self-destroying work has nowhere to go but to the credits. Such symmetry is a dismal, barbarian sort of perfection.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfHarsh-voiced Sarah Butler lends zero personality to her avenging antiheroine, and the retributive torture sequences approach "Saw" levels of unlikelihood.
- 10Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaLos Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaFor most, there will be no adrenaline rush from fear or thrill, or vicarious release from seeing tormentors tormented; one leaves feeling sad. Sad that this is what "entertainment" has come to. Come on, filmmakers. Can't you do better?
- 0Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film "I Spit on Your Grave" adds yet another offense: a phony moral equivalency.