Hollywood Reporter February 25, 2015 [Director Joe Lynch] stages the action cleanly and kinetically. And Hayek delivers a fully committed performance, handling the role’s in...
Independent June 26, 2015 Lynch shows some visual flair with a few clever, Tarantino-like touches but the film overall is a deadening and claustrophobic experience...
The Guardian June 28, 2015 Those with an adolescent nostalgia for video-nasty era degradation/retribution may be mildly titillated, but Lynch has neither the wit nor desire t...
Salma Hayek stars in what must be the most distasteful and exploitative film of the year so far.
The Guardian June 25, 2015 A gruelling gimmick thriller, pitched at dead-eyed graduates of the Matthew Vaughn school of cinematic sociopathy.
Variety February 26, 2015 Salma Hayek plays a sex slave turned killer in this stylish but lumbering actioner.
If it were an exam paper, you’d scrunch the whole thing up into a ball and throw it back at the overconfident poser who’d just sub...
What on earth is Salma Hayek doing starring in this exploitative, junky piece of torture trash?
Los Angeles Times February 26, 2015 Feels precision-engineered for a morally torn fanboy who likes the idea of female empowerment but needs it served with a heavy dose of torture...
Observer February 26, 2015 A smorgasbord of pornography masquerading as violence, Everly is so repugnant and pointless there were times when I wanted to call for help.
RogerEbert.com February 27, 2015 If the film does anything right, it reminds us that now-48-year-old Hayek is one heck of a forceful presence when she is allowed to be.
Nothing more than a pointless exercise in brutal, nasty style.
The Dissolve January 26, 2015 There isn’t much music to be made by mashing the same couple of notes, and the lack of variation gets to be a grind.
AV Club February 26, 2015 There’s the pervasive feeling that this is a prefab cult film that doesn’t need to try too hard, instead offering cosmetic variati...
