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Irreversible (2003)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:14
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Though well-filmed, Irreversible feels gratuitous in its extreme violence.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $573,018
Synopsis: Irreversible is a demanding and audacious but thoroughly rewarding cinematic experience that has been thrilling audiences since its world premiere in Cannes and its North American debut screenings... [More]
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Director: Gaspar Noe
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Reviews for Irreversible
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05/19/04
Top CriticExtremely difficult to endure, and if you choose to endure it, it could leave you feeling angry and upset. Nevertheless, this is serious filmmaking, and Noe is a gifted filmmaker.
05/09/03
Top CriticA fascinating study in excess, a movie that seduces and repulses as it explores the merciless nature of fate.
04/24/03
Top CriticFails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds, which make the violence at the end feel even worse.
04/11/03
Top CriticA genuine outlaw work of art.
04/11/03
Top CriticA sometimes repellent yet deeply moving film.
03/27/03
Top CriticThere's less to Irreversible than meets even the most unblinking of eyes.
03/21/03
Top CriticI hope people who go to see this don't walk out in the first ten minutes or after that scene, because I think you have to experience the entire film. And then you can decide whether or not you're offended by it.
03/18/03
Top CriticAt once overwhelming and inconsequential, harrowing and banal, gimmicky and humourless, overheated and undercooked, this mega-hyped French movie may represent the ultimate triumph of cynicism in the global trade in non-English-language movies.
03/14/03
Top CriticIs there a point to this spew, a cry against the mongrel violence of men? Or is Noe merely a sadist who enjoys inflicting ugly, pitiless images on his audience?
03/14/03
Top CriticExcruciating exercise in voyeurism, provocation and pretentiousness.
03/14/03
Top CriticAn integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content.
03/14/03
Top CriticNoe's summation is an ideological sucker-punch from a filmmaker who gets off on abusive relationships.
03/14/03
Top CriticSo formally and stylistically aggressive that this aspect overpowers what it has to say, which isn't much.
03/14/03
Top CriticThe reverse chronology makes Irreversible a film that structurally argues against rape and violence, while ordinary chronology would lead us down a seductive narrative path toward a shocking, exploitative payoff.
03/14/03
Top CriticIt's a gritty, vicious assault on the senses, one that very nearly evaporates due to writer-director Gaspar Noé's short-changing of the narrative.
03/13/03
Top CriticOnce the shock wears off and feeling returns to the extremities, Irreversible is unmistakably life-altering and affirming.
03/13/03
Top CriticConvinces me as nothing else so far that I have reached the point of diminishing returns with movies that pretend to be profound by having their pulpy, banal stories told backwards and sideways and upside-down.
03/13/03
Top CriticThe hard, lurid images catch you in a vise. But dramatically, with few exceptions, it's a mess.
03/13/03
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