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| Total Vote User Black Rock : Visitor | |
| User Percentage For Black Rock : % | |
| User Ranting Black Rock : 3.5 | |
| User Count Like for Black Rock : 1,206 | |
| All Critics Count For Black Rock : 31 | |
| All Critics Percentage For Black Rock : 42 % | |
| All Critics Ranting For Black Rock : 5.2 | |
Actors For Black Rock | |
| Kate Bosworth,Lake Bell,Katie Aselton,Will Bouvier,Jay Paulson,Anslem Richardson | |
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| It seemed that Black Rock might take its very basic premise and use it as a platform to explore larger ideas. But even on its own terms as just a lean-and-mean genre exercise, this one's not all that interesting. Alonso Duralde-The Wrap Aselton, you sure have a purty mouth, but what are you trying to say? Amy Nicholson-Los Angeles Times This indie, female-centric riff on "Deliverance" is spare, smartly written and shot through with moments of twig-snapping tension. Sara Stewart-New York Post It works because Aselton and Bell turn in wildly physical, primal performances. You do not want to mess with these women. "Black Rock" is ferocious stuff. Tom Long-Detroit News The male characters here are too thinly developed for this to be a top-notch survival thriller, but Ms. Aselton knows how to get the pulse pounding. Neil Genzlinger-New York Times Unexpectedly sturdy in some ways, shaky in others. Tom Russo-Boston Globe Efficient thriller that's practically a feature-length evocation of Thomas Hobbes' notion of life in nature: "nasty, brutish and short." Robert Levin-amNewYork The concept is there, but a movie like this needs a much more polished execution that "Black Rock" gets. Marc Mohan-Oregonian It feels amateurish, as though it was made up as they went along. The violence - because that's what most of the action consists of - feels phony. Marshall Fine-Hollywood & Fine It's a very short experience but one that hits its beats with a sense of urgency and a feeling of helplessness. Mark Dujsik-Mark Reviews Movies Nifty little genre gem with its share of surprises has three damsel campers in distress on an isolated island they didn't know they'd be sharing with three hunters back from overseas battle and with too much fight left in them. Doris Toumarkine-Film Journal International Turns out Aselton doesn't have much to say other than that women will fight for their lives as tenaciously as men, which is not exactly news. Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press The what-if scenario that incites the action of "Black Rock" is captivating but Aselton and co-writer/husband Mark Duplass don't build on that scenario enough to make the venture successful overall. Brian Tallerico-HollywoodChicago.com Genre pieces can be straightforward but shouldn't confuse shallowness with efficiency. Matt Pais-RedEye It sets up this distaff-Deliverance scenario much better than it pays it off. A.A. Dowd-AV Club Black Rock isn't going to become the sort of classic that Deliverance was, but if you like your scares smart, and like them to happen to people you actually care about, then Aselton's island of friendship and fury is a nice place to visit. James Rocchi-The Playlist Aselton's unassuming guilty pleasure gently diverges from a familiar scenario with impressively tense results. Eric Kohn-indieWIRE | |
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