Green Room

It doesn’t take a big budget and loads of special effects to create a genuinely scary movie. It just takes – as writer/director Jer...

It’s a delightfully cruel work of high tension, perfect in just how quickly and easily it gets under your skin.

Littered with clever dialogue, a beautifully constructed narrative, as well as moments that shift between the energizing and sheer terror, there ar...

It’s all put together with great skill, but never quite manages to deliver more than its modest, stripped-back story will allow.

Good lord is it tense.

What makes Green Room more than just a giddy, gory slice of gonzo B-movie mayhem … is both its ace cast and the vise-tightening mastery of the...

As action, it’s niftily executed, the suspense neatly built, and the shocks expectedly surprising.

Fear brings out the truth, even in would-be punks. And there is a lot of fear in "Green Room."

What makes Green Room’s premise so thrilling is how much it lets these characters lead the action – sometimes into dangerous dead ends.

Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine – in the best possible way.

The film is an unambiguous endorsement of violent revolt as the only effective response to such inhuman savagery.

For a mess, it’s lively. But from Saulnier we’d have liked something more.

Smartly cast, Stewart brings an almost Shakespearean edge to the drama, delivering lines such as "all is for nought" in the manner of a theatrical...

It takes a while for the solid premise to unravel…and for the better portion of its running time Green Room functions as a highly effective th...

Jeremy Saulnier’s little genre gem is simply told and smartly executed, with a little bit of everything, from snarling dogs to bloody mu...

The most hardcore film of the year, Green Room, is 95 minutes of pure, unbridled Mosh Pit Cinema.

Scrape off the scum, and you’ll find Green Room full of visual artistry, dark humor, smart writing, and glints of humanity.

There’s also a thick vein of dark humour that runs through the film which never turns it into a comedy but keeps some of the nastier mom...

What begins as a nail-biting thriller effortlessly segues into carnage, replete with ripped throats and wounds that seek to redefine the word...

Just might be the kind of punk horror movie you never knew you always wanted, catalyzing disparate elements into a heady, bloody, loud stew of...

[In] Jeremy Saulnier’s near-perfect nugget of a siege thriller…[g]raphic scenes of carnage are doled out sparingly but unflinchingly, wh...

Its go-for-broke horror aesthetic a real world cavalcade of terror that had me noticeably shaking long after the film itself had come to an end.

Saulnier’s script unfolds with airtight logic and tick-tock tension, and his direction is forceful yet efficient.

Only a limited number of things can happen in this kind of movie, of course, but Saulnier manages pace, tone and storytelling so adroitly that...

Even when the movie is a challenge to follow, the plot is propulsive, and the tone is right.

"Green Room" may be too schematic to fully capture the essence of its characters' groddy milieu, but it’s also economically paced, and g...

A riotous, rough-hewn and rousing punk reinvention of '70s-style grindhouse exploitation-with-a-brain-cinema.

The film’s "punk versus skinheads" hook gives it the quality of a blood-spattered graphic novel, but there’s a sophistication...

The setup is as elemental as a campfire story but "Green Room" dresses it anew.

The film has a smart grasp on the hand-to-mouth lifestyle of road dogs, and a stronger sense of the lingo and sweatbox atmosphere of dive...

Generates some serious stakes and maximum suspense.

Saulnier gets lots of laughs and builds plenty of suspense in this effective (if gory) little tongue-in-cheek sleeper.

Green Room proves to be an exquisitely crafted love letter to John Carpenter, and the rare horror ensemble that gives as much care to the villains...

Green Room is a relatively simple film on paper, but it never feels over-written or cheaply sensationalized. We feel like the choices being ma...

The 95 minutes are so enthralling and fly by so fast that it’s got a rollercoaster effect. It’s hard to come down from the ad...

One of the most brutal, visceral films to come along in quite some time.

Mr. Saulnier certainly could have done more, but he succeeds perfectly well within the limited terms he has set for himself.

Saulnier’s undoubted skills as a director just about outweigh his fondness for gore.

The production doesn’t offer much in the way of originality but it’s a tense 90-minute ride that will result in elevated pulses, i...

This is one smart chiller.

[Saulnier does] everything right: the cast, the music, the editing, the way he leads you one way and then clobbers you (and some of his ill-fated c...

Somewhere in its black little heart, it has something interesting to say about human resiliency and the reckless moral code of youth. And at just o...

A pulverising piece of Seventies-style grindhouse exploitation, stitched together from the body parts of John Boorman’s classic Deliverance a...

A shabby white-power outpost in the Oregon boondocks becomes a grim last stand for a nomadic band of college-age punk rockers in the demonical...

How can you resist a film that, metaphorically, throws Simon & Garfunkel, Fugazi and Slayer into the same moshpit?

Green Room is way more than crass exploitation. It’s a B movie with an art-house core.

Green Room is a smart, sick and suspenseful thriller that is perfect for a night out with friends.

This is a lean, undemanding popcorn movie and better for it.