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A purposely disturbing portrait of a damaged psyche.
Durkin depicts a horror that some among us actually live, where the search for family leads to something familiar and dangerous.
Sean Durkin's compulsively watchable first film is a psychological thriller camouflaged as an Ingmar Bergman-style country-house drama.
Hawkes is, as ever, outstanding. But Olsen is a wonder.
The horror aesthetic of B-movie producer Val Lewton -- that the unseen is more frightening than the seen -- is carried to a merciless extreme in this unnerving debut feature by writer-director Sean Durkin.
Olsen's performance is a triumph of constraint.
At least, though the insights here aren't as plentiful as Durkin seems to think, Olsen's fine work as the off-balance, paranoid anti-hero helps to create that illusion.
Durkin, working with cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes and editor Zachary Stuart-Pontier, masterfully sustains an aura of oppressive threat throughout.
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" will stick with you.
A study in tension, dread and carefully built anxiety
The sort of indie whose single goal is to make you feel so bad when it's done that you must have just seen something good.
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" is an off-putting title, and I suspect that's deliberate. The drama about a troubled woman is intended to keep you off-balance for its entire running time.
Durkin offers the most persuasively believable peek into the psyche of such a character I've ever seen.
...centers on a cult, and by the movie's end you feel as if you've been indoctrinated.
A tidy and compelling psychological thriller by writer-director Sean Durkin that deftly charts one woman's shattered psyche.
Sophomoric psychology and stereotypical social models cemented by wooden acting.
'Martha' should earn new Olsen sister a cult following.
A stealth horror film that delves deeper into Martha's inner troubles than many filmgoers might wish to go.
Durkin lures us into the world of the cult slowly, just as Martha was, and the additive effect of gradually introducing its more extreme aspects is nearly imperceptible, yet as constricting as a slowly tightening vice.
Olsen is so good as a person coping with the aftermath of physical and psychological abuse that the movie has made her an 'overnight sensation'.
A hushed, mesmerizing story.
...nothing more than a showcase for several stirring performances...
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