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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerFor most of the way, Return to Sender merges creepy and sexy to good effect, thanks to a close-to-the-vest performance by Rosamund Pike.
- 40Village VoiceSerena DonadoniVillage VoiceSerena DonadoniEven with the dramatic buildup, Mikati hesitates to make Return to Sender an all-out revenge fantasy, and the characters are too sketchy for an effective psychological thriller.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFouad Mikati's tawdry psychological thriller features the talented actress in a film that bears no small resemblance in theme, if not quality, to the hit movie version of Gillian Flynn's best-seller.
- 30Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleRevenge is a dish served lumpy and tasteless in the tonally muddled Return to Sender.
- 25Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThe kind of wholly misconceived thriller that begs asking precisely what its filmmakers were seeking to accomplish.
- Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. Fernandez can’t decide whether his rapist is a menacing thug or a sexy innocent. And as Miranda’s father, a bearded, hatted, suspendered Nick Nolte seems to have wandered in from the set of “Witness 2: Amish and Loving It.”
- Return to Sender proves to be nothing but dead air, an entirely too predictable, slow-paced, and misguided genre effort.
- 12RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiDreck of the lowest kind — a sleazy exploitation film that is all the worse because it has somehow convinced itself that it is thoughtful and profound.