Pet (2016)

The film is engrossing, thanks to the director's skill at delivering sustained tension, and the excellent performances.

Pet sputters and pants its way to a kind of twist, one that's genuinely misogynist on the one hand but also too cretinous to be authentically repellent.

The films zigs where you expect a depraved zag, resulting in a smart and unsettling tale ...

[Its] strengths ... are undermined by a story that gives Seth an out and seems to suggest that we should forgive him. Not likely.

The constant power flipping allows for some interesting explorations of both the misogyny and misandry demonstrated by the main characters, and the way they justify their actions through the philosophical lens of love and sacrifice.

Psychosis come in many forms here, and as these two characters negotiate with each other where one's ideal ends and the other's begins, Torrens treats the viewer to a twisted sadomasochistic love story.

It becomes a more enjoyable movie around the midway point, but it also becomes a lesser one.

... doesn't get under the skin as intended, in part because of the obvious way the scheme unravels.

The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.

If you can't respect your audience enough to connect obvious plot items, they surely won't respect you back.

[An] ambitious psychological thriller that's unlikely to attract mainstream audiences but should play well with horror buffs.

[A] suspenseful mystery thriller which initially seems a straight lift from Fowles' book but develops in other, surprising directions.