13 Tzameti is cut from the same cloth as the humans-hunted-for-sport classic "The Most Dangerous Game" - and from that early talkie's many subsequent remakes and rip-offs, including John Woo's "Hard Target."Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Although it's likely too stark for everyone, 13 Tzameti offers a mind-blowing experience for anyone willing to go along for the ride.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
13 (Tzameti) is an existential horror film, a violent prank, a metaphor for modern Europe, and a first-time director's startling calling card.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
With its icy cynicism and desolate settings, the film evokes the work of the young Roman Polanski in his sadistic trickster mode.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Rob Nelson
The artiest entry in the ever growing torture-movie genre, this playfully wicked French thriller from twentysomething provocateur Gela Babluani blasts its way into your brainpan with the help of black-and-white widescreen cinematography whose striking but smooth textures better suit the upwardly mobile auteur than his poor protagonist.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
For me, the meticulous style, the fascination with ritualized (and ludicrous) violence and the film-geek self-referentiality all seem like markers of a film made by a young man, for other young men. If I were 23, and full to the brim with dark-hearted existentialism, I might love it too.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
French art thriller 13 Tzameti has a literal hair-trigger premise, yet it's so lacking in human dimensions that it creates virtually no suspense.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Adriane Quinlan
These actors move with the labored blocking of a high school play.Read Full Review »
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