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Prevenge

2016

Alice Lowe

Alice Lowe, Kayvan Novak, Kate Dickie, Jo Hartley ...

5.1

1,650

Horror. Comedy Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.

	Author	Review
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Lowe skillfully evinces two of a horror director's greatest assets: a knack for locating society's most awkward pressure points, and a willingness to punch them (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"If the filmmaking skills are less refined, the scrappiness suits the material (...) But as the psychodrama of a lonely woman with a score to settle acquires seriousness (...) [the movie loses] its way."	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Lowe cleverly staggers her reveals in such a way that the narrative’s rhetorical implications shift slightly with each one."	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"Alice Lowe (...) has cooked up an outrageous antenatal shocker that brings together murder, madness and maternity in a fever dream of fear and farce (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Patrick Smith Telegraph	"'Prevenge' is a kaleidoscope of violence and humour, a tense tale that wickedly extracts laughs through the banality of its suburban setting (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"Alice Lowe’s directorial debut may falter in its grip, especially in story and tone, but it’s a daringly evocative film that marks a filmmaker of imagination and promise (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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