Lovely Molly 2011

Critics score:
41 / 100

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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Generating suspense without blowing the special-effects budget, Mr. Sanchez paints an intimate portrait of a tormented personality. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: If the people in it behaved in a logical way, then there wouldn't be a movie. Read more

Alison Willmore, AV Club: Lovely Molly is a portrait of either spiraling madness or a haunting, and it deftly handles the slow erosion of its title character's consciousness. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Common sense and basic logic are left are the door; there's a brief creature effect that is laughably, outlandishly awful. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Sanchez ... is not making his debut here, and after more than a decade he should be willing to do something besides jerking the camera around and making noises offscreen. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: [Sanchez] demonstrates that a well-timed door slam and a cleverly framed shot of an ordinary household object are as creepy as ever. Read more

Adam Litovitz, Globe and Mail: Some of the shock effects in Lovely Molly are successfully disorienting, but too many of its ideas are reductive and histrionic, such as those concerning the male victimization of women, vengeance and mental illness. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: [Its] cynical hedging of its psychological/supernatural bets seems mostly designed to breed sequels. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Sanchez is going for a fear that's closer to home than any mysterious bumps in the night. His Polanskian psychodrama, shrouded by our expectations, develops violently and, it must be said, with little sense of actual domestic tragedy. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Sanchez ratchets up the tension incrementally - things heard and not quite seen - creating a mood of unease that graduates in stages into full-blown horror. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Has all the interest of watching an inexplicably untreated wound fester. Read more