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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaRandom Acts of Violence has something to say about the proliferation of torture porn and horror that glorifies violence. Baruchel does it in a smart, sometimes funny, and sometimes utterly devastating way. It’s absolutely worth checking out if you love horror, and maybe even if you don’t.
- 50The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakOn its most superficial horror flick level, Jay Baruchel’s latest directorial effort Random Acts of Violence works
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe result is more flashy and shallow than ingenious, let alone terrifying. Yet it’s also a committed effort, one whose energy and style command some appreciation even when they overwhelm the shaky story gist.
- 40The GuardianCath ClarkeThe GuardianCath ClarkeThe movie falls apart with some moral handwringing that will likely infuriate genre fans, and for everyone else, feel like a tired airing of the debate around violence in movies – all the more objectionable in a film with its fair share of mutilated female victims.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s as random as its title suggests, a genre flick that doesn’t do much more than stumble and angst-out from one killing to the next.
- 38Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeSlant MagazineSteven ScaifeFor all of its ostensible thoughtfulness, in trying to describe “real art,” Random Acts of Violence ultimately doesn’t describe anything at all.
- 25RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoA depressing, cynical slice of nihilism, a movie that thinks it’s saying something about gratuitous violence and exploitation of real tragedy but is even more hypocritically hollow than the films it purports to criticize.