CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Kyle Smith - NY Post

Owen Gleiberman - EW

Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide Online

Aaron Hillis - Premiere Magazine

Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter

Teresa Wiltz - Washington Post

Jan Stuart - LA Times

John Anderson - Variety

Wesley Morris - Boston Globe

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Mark Holcomb - Village Voice

Stina Chyn - Film Threat

Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle

Nathan Lee - NY Times

Jack Mathews - NY Daily News

DUELING CRITICS

"Writer-director Eli Roth...has so many clever ideas that he can afford to throw away a few and the big twist is not only wickedly smart and funny (and sick and preposterous), but a surprise. Hostel is a screaming good time, marred only by a lazy ending"

- Kyle Smith

"[A] sick puppy of a horror movie...Could end up No. 1 on Dick Cheney's year-end top 10 list...A man has his Achilles tendons severed and is then told to run for it. Hey, there's a chuckle"

- Jack Mathews