Return to Sender

  • 2016


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15 %
14 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 5
Negative reviews 32
Average Rating 1.6/5
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1.0
Faced with such unattractive material, Mikati effectively takes that advice to heart on the filmmaking front. Variety
1.0
Miranda, unfortunately, is a pancake flat character, made ever flatter by Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossetts howlingly awful script. We Got This Covered
3.0
Things are clearly not what they seem and you keep wondering exactly when this is going to turn into Hard Candy. The Guardian
2.0
Before Rosamund Pike was cast in Gone Girl, she made this cheapo thriller, which almost acts as a piece of lurid Amazing Amy fan fiction.She plays a s .. The Guardian
1.3
Return to Sender is the kind of wholly misconceived thriller that begs asking precisely what its filmmakers were seeking to accomplish.
2.0
103mins Like some fine wines,director Bille August doesnt seem totravel well. Screen Daily
1.0
Return to Sender is dreck of the lowest kinda sleazy exploitation film that is all the worse because it has somehow convinced itself that it is though .. Rogerebert
2.0
The end product: cinematic clickbait that hides its weakest material behind spoilers, and hopes its audience will be gullible enough to proceed. Telegraph
1.5
Sub par direction ruins whatever creativity and originality could be gleaned from the films odd approach to the rape revenge formula. The Young Folks
2.0
Pikes Miranda is an ambitious OCD nurse, close to her dad (Nolte), good at cake decorating and reluctant in love.
1.0
Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar nominated Gone Girl performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. Ny Daily News
2.0
Even with the dramatic buildup, Mikati hesitates to make Return to Sender an all out revenge fantasy, and the characters are too sketchy for an effect .. Village Voice
3.0
10 1 3 / 10 After watching Rosamund Pike portray a scheming, murderous psychopath in last years Gone Girl, its a little strange to see the actress att .. Blu Ray
1.0
We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video A forgettable post Gone Gi .. The Times
2.0
Review Our Score by David Parkinson Those familiar with Gone Girl will experience an inescapable sense of deja vu while watching Fouad Mikatis derivat .. Radio Times
2.0
Pikes portrayal of the fiercely intelligent but inscrutable heroine is fascinating but the film itself turns into clumsy exploitation fare. Independent
1.5
Their work doesnt transcend the materials limitations, but both performances should be required viewing for actors who think that being better than th .. Film Journal
0.5
Anyway, its fine that Miranda is a disagreeable person, as potentially intriguing characters go, but that doesnt explain, on its own, what happens nex ..
2.5
If you dont want to know how the film ends (which is key to its effectiveness), stop right here! Q Network
3.0
The story works an old and distasteful trope the rape victim who falls for the attacker but the treatment is restrained rather than salacious. The New York Times
0.0
There is nothing the world can gain from this loathsome project except toxic ideas, its representations in baffling disgusting taste of a personal hor .. The Film Stage
1.0
In my head Im calling this film What Is This I Cant Even: The Movie. Flickfilosopher
1.0
What we have here is a misguided attempt at creating an intelligent and thought provoking thriller about a controversial subject thats far from intell .. Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
And yet director Fouad Mikati never settles on whether hes steering an identity crisis drama or an exploitative vengeance fantasy. Los Angeles Times
1.5
Though hes arrested and imprisoned in short order, Mirandas recovery isnt so tidy. Variety
1.5
Because sometimes subtle symbolism needs repeating... she waits for a return visit from her rapist by tending her front garden. Film School Rejects
1.5
Whilst theres probably not enough story here to warrant the films admittedly short running time, when it reaches its heightened emotional ending, you .. Film Ink
0.5
Every scene, every plot twist, every character development echoes in its hollowness; theres little to redeem a very shallow story. Cine Vue
2.5
So in this end this feels like an undercooked genre movie, which is hugely disappointing for a film with a cast this good and a premise with this much .. Contact Music
1.0
Its tired premise can be boiled down to little more than a rape revenge plot.This damaging narrative paints the rape victim as a villainess out of her .. Ib Times
0.5
The audience, though, will surely guess the twist which is coming. The Sun
0.5
Even Rosamund Pike is recycling her performance, and she knows it; its simply a Gone Girl rip off that will lose even the most forgiving viewer in the .. One Room With A View
1.5
... a slow burn female payback thriller in the tradition of Siegels Beguiled and Miikes masterful Audition ... definitely deserved better than being s .. Bitly
2.0
In the end it plays like a classic Pixar film: promising a ride but delivering ideas. Scots Man
2.0
They dont.The thing is, Miranda doesnt need these quirky traits to feel like a complete character. Or Lando Weekly
1.5
Their work doesnt transcend the materials limitations, but both performances should be required viewing for actors who think that being better than th .. Film Journal International ..
3.0
I OFTEN think of the great Alfred Hitchcock when a director kills the suspense in a clumsy thriller. Daily Star
1.5
I know this doesnt make a lot of sense, says one character in the final scene. NME
4.5
Despite its occasional missteps, this hybrid of Gone Girl and Misery is bizarrely compelling. Ff2 Media



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