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  Review by Waldo ★★★ 16

  This rape - revenge film is like a modern Ms. 45. It is a bit of a mess but it's stylish enough, good soundtrack and it's well made with a very effective central performance by Ashley C. Williams as Julia. I liked that the film takes kind of a plunge into a sort of netherworld. It also helps that the ending is balls out gore.

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  Review by zuhair vazir ★★ 4

  Pretentious, unique, oddly engaging and OUCH. Fracking OUCH.

  Julia Shames (the lovely Ashley C. Williams of the 'Human Centipede' fame; the victim 'stuck in the middle with you') is an assistant to a surgeon. We do not get to know Julia's back story until much later; just that she wants Ugly Duckling to never turn in to a Swan, yet she craves companionship.

  A drawn, sad looking, bespectacled Ms. Shames is invited to the apartment of someone she met before the film began. This could be to amaze the viewer with Julia's desperation of walking in to a stranger's joint AND consume champagne served by him. You know what happens when dubious strangers make you drinks. Moments later you are…

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  Review by Roxxi ✞ ★★★½

  Julia is just American Mary's loser sister

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  Review by karl ★★★

  You cannot help but compare this to American Mary but in truth this is by far inferior.

  Although it has some good moments, good soundtrack it also left me disappointed with the overall outcome.

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  Review by alchemistryy ★★★

  2014 marathon ㅡ #29
  Yes, good moments, but nothing new, nothing inspiring, no twist and even what should be a "twist" was the most absurd and unnecessary thing in the movie

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  Review by cupofcoffinjoe ★★

  A modern rape/revenge film, Julia takes a visceral genre and makes it feel oddly cold and detached.

  As a character, Julia remains a blank slate for the entire running time. Who is this woman? Well, she's a nurse and...well, that's it. The filmmakers were likely reaching for a Lady Snowblood/Scorpion vibe. Sadly, she can't pull it off, and we're left with a void where the intensity should be.

  And by rights she should be bursting with intensity! Julia is drugged and gang raped. She seeks out a cult-like therapist who is an obsessive control freak. She gets revenge but breaks the rules, so she must face dire consequences. Not cool.

  I suppose that the domineering therapist is supposed to mirror Julia's loss of control when she was raped. Or something like that. But with an expressionless personality vacuum at the film's core, none of it really seems to matter. Two stars because the revenge is pretty damned satisfying.

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  Review by judybats ½ 1

  what. the fuck was this 🧍‍♀️ you're telling me you run a therapeutic cult where you rope in women who've been r/ped to go and kill men BUT it cant be personal.... meaning they're..... killing random men and castrating them because..... the therapist was castrated by his transmisogynistic father for "being womanly" so the main character gets in trouble for going after her r/pists. then ???? she kills her maybe girlfriend who's also part of the cult for zero reason. oh okay, so we're just doing shit for kicks and giggles i guess ! omgggg this was such a creative and original idea i can't believe this only has a 2.6 rating 🤪

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  Review by Grimbo ★★★

  Rapey revenge horror where most of the violence happens offscreen.

  I coulda done without the romance angle but I suppose it was part of the plot.

  It felt like it owed a lot to Ti West's House of the Devil, in style and tone if not plot.

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  Review by allie ༺♡༻ ★★★

  i love revenge films where the woman works in some kind of medical field because then she knows what she's doing

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  Review by Julien Faddoul ★★

  There are too many movies called JULIA.

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  Review by Kevin Cormier ★★½

  A young woman is raped by a group of men, and in her traumatic state ends up joining an unorthodox therapy group with questionable methods. 
  Ashley C Williams stars as Julia and plays the part stoically well. Movie is your interesting and different from most revenge themed films which is a nice change.

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  Review by Keith Watson ★★½

  Rape and revenge, the peanut butter and jelly of exploitation filmmaking, define the parameters of “Julia.” The movie opens with a rape and ends the moment that rape has been avenged. Julia, the victim and avenger, shows little sign of having existed prior to her rape and even less sign of continuing her existence once she has meted vengeance upon her attackers and the credits start to roll. She is, in other words, just a prop in director Matthew A. Brown’s slickly pretentious exercise in empty style. The extent to which this bothers you will largely determine your appreciation for the film.

  Within the first five minutes of “Julia,” the title character, a shy, intentionally desexualized nurse living in New…