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  Review by Harlequin ★★★★ 14

  Have you ever had one of those experiences where you hear things about a movie, you see the poster and the title, read the plot, take things in. You think about those things for a while, and decide that it's not for you, but you end up watching it anyway because you have to know.
  You learn how incredibly wrong you were about everything.

  Have you ever been lost for words when trying to explain a plot?
  Because no matter how hard you try, you know you can't get around all the plot twists, and you know you'll somehow end up spoiling it?

  Rated R for violence and terror, and for language.

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  Review by Tony the Terror 🎃 ★★★½ 2

  I love that this whole movie seems like somebody told Jessica Biel she couldn’t act and she was like “bitch, not only are you gonna learn today, but ima produce this shit as well so you can have a sat down.”

  The rest of the movie is pretty good, but my attention wandered once In a while. I’d honestly rate it higher if it wasn’t such a massive downer.

  Also, I love these small town movies with pretty people. Like I lived in a small town for 2 years and there was no Jessica Biel or Jodelle Ferland or Samantha Ferris anywhere. In fact, I’m quite sure I was the prettiest person there but then that’s the case for me in a lot of places so ya know...

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  Review by HorrorSage ½ 14

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Good night and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.

  FUCK THIS FUCKING MOVIE!

  Honestly I didn't even mind it that much. I was interested in who the fall man was. And when the reveal that Biel kidnapped the little boy appeared I was super into it.

  Then I realized we are just over half way done. You know what that means? DOUBLE TWIST.

  Turns out she was kidnapping poor kids so rich people could "raise them right." And you know what, FUCK YOU MOVIE. ARGH. This fucking plutocratic bullshit! I wish Biel was just a villain. Even if nothing changed if she was framed a villain. Like these rich people were framed as collecting poor kids as some kind of status.…

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  Review by evilbjork ★½ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A movie about how poor people are bad parents and should have their kids taken away. Mainly it's bad because of how cheesy it is and how dumb the plot ends up being. It's not a horror movie and barely a thriller.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★

  "Breathe... you can do this... c'mon you can make it" -Julia,

  - FC Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: boxd.it/7uQXe
  "Watch a movie that was filmed in Saskatchewan, Land of Living Skies. (Sheldon)"

  I blame Canada.

  I found this film a little difficult to get through because of what I found to be a pretty boring plot and stale, one-dimensional characters. Jessica Biel acts like she is going for an Oscar but this film feels way too generic and consistently dour that I found it hard to even focus on it for long periods of time. I suppose the direction is a bit flashy and fun so it has that going for it but I'll stop thinking about this movie the second I press save.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★½ 2

  I guess I'm a fan.
  While I still haven't seen his debut, Laugier impresses me as a director. Martyrs is perhaps the only horror film in recent years that managed to shake me to my core. His follow up suffers from (intentionally?) misleading marketing and a tiny identity crisis, but does what it needs to do. It is different and managed to keep me intrigued for its runnig time.

  If you go looking for another Martyrs, you'll be sorely disappointed. There is no gore here. None whatsoever. And it isn't disturbing at all. What it is is a thriler with a central mystery that needs to be solved. This sounds a dime a dozen, but trust me it isn't. If…

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  Review by ZJ ★

  I had no idea what was going on for 97% of this but Biel was Biel.

  Century of Cinema: 39.

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  Review by Derek ★★★½

  So this movie had me pretty into it up until the last 10 minutes or so. During those 10 minutes it pretty much justifies kidnapping poor children and trafficking them to wealthy people and portrays the characters that were involved as if they were doing a good deed. I feel like whoever wrote this needs to be on some sort of FBI or Interpol watchlist because I've never seen a movie make heroes out of human traffickers like this movie does. Jessica Biel's character is despicable on every level and is made all the worse because she is the type of sociopath that truly believes she is doing good. She was made to seem like a martyr in this movie,…

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  Review by Patrick Lohmeier ★★★★ 12

  Handwerklich hervorragender Thriller, der immer wieder überrascht. Dass dabei nicht jede Überraschung gefällt, stört nicht weiter. Laugier bestätigt seinen Ruf als einer der besten und wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Filmemacher.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★½ 1

  For the first half to two-thirds of this film, I was onboard with it pretty much whole-heartedly. I thought it was a more evenly thought-out and directed film than 'Martyrs', certainly more beautiful in cinematography and set design. The principal actors are great, Jessica Biel especially does an excellent job. This is not a horror movie in any sense, but borrows tones and elements from dark fairy tales and thriller/suspense in order to construct its narrative. In particular, there are aspects of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' and 'Hansel and Gretel'. The closest cinematic analogue would probably by M. Night Shyamalan. The town where it is set, Cold Rock, lay above a hollowed-out mountain of tunnels and chasms, just as…

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  Review by Kandi ★★★

  At first it started off really well and eerie and it definitely had me questioning a lot of things that happened in the beginning but then it led me astray where I found it confusing and misleading at times. I found that at times it was to stalling to get to the point of the matter. Like it was sloppy and the plot was all over the place. It wasn’t until nearly the end did I start to understand & grasp the concept behind the tall man. The ending literally saved this movie from getting a 1 star. I wasn’t sure where this movie was going at first but now I definitely see the big picture & I appreciate it a lot…

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  Review by Ian West ★ 2

  I really loved the pacific northwest cinematography and I’m pretty sure my eventual path will lead me there one day, as for the movie... ummm ok.. yeah sure.