Ondskan 2003

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The way it plays out, Evil feeds the audience's bloodlust as much as it decries the worst acts of its characters. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Movies like Evil entertain us by serving sweet revenge on a platter, and director Mikael Hafstrom manipulates emotions more intelligently than most. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Watching this time bomb tick away is never less than riveting. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Hafstrom's dramatic sense is ... pedestrian and snail's-pace obvious. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: A commentary on the troubling gray area between acceptable and unacceptable forms of violence, especially where the molding of boys into 'real men' is concerned. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Comes perilously close to making Erik's suffering at the hands of sadistic upperclassmen seem almost fetishistic. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Hafstrom never finds the shades in his morality tale, so while Wilson is an intensely charismatic actor, all he can do is respond to relentless, escalating tortures. It's immensely unpleasant for him, and, frankly, not a whole lot better for us. Read more

John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle: Wilson, who plays Erik, had never been in a film before Evil -- which was nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar in 2004 -- and there's no reason that he can't make many more of them. Read more

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Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: The milieu owes something to Lindsay Anderson's If.... , but Evil is less anti-authority than pro-confrontation. Read more