Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
For a movie with a critique of mediocrity well within its grasp, this one settles for an embrace of it, barely breaking a sweat.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A mean-spirited and largely witless satire of an Olympic gymnast who has Kerri Strug's grit but Tonya Harding's personality.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Anyone looking for a truly blackhearted, merciless comedy will be disappointed. But that can be a zero-sum game; at least The Bronze softens up convincingly.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The plot is beyond basic and the dialogue so crude it almost feels like an R-rated cartoon. Still, The Bronze has a loony Napoleon Dynamite-meets-Talladega Nights-on-the-balance-beam charm.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
After a while, you may even start to feel that what director Bryan Buckley & Co. really value is whatever squirming discomfort they can wring from an audience that fancies itself sophisticated enough to enjoy the naturally unpleasant.

Name : Gail Pennington / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There are some laughs in "The Bronze," but more time in which we might wish it would end already.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
"The Bronze" is a fiercely independent comedy, sure to be too startling for some, but that's its great promise. This world needs more pistols with this kind of firepower.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
An Olympic-themed tale that goes way overboard in conveying that its main character is despicable.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
When it comes down to it, "The Bronze" is just another movie about overcoming arrested development. It's not as funny as it tries to be, but, for a few, fleeting minutes, it leaves an impression.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The Bronze is a strident comedy made in accordance with the sole guiding principle of, when it doubt, go even more vulgar.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
This is one movie that gets better as it goes along, even as it fails to fully hit the high bar of making us care about a very nasty individual.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
There are some decent laughs here (especially for a well choreographed sex scene) and even an amusing soundtrack, but there's just not enough story to go around.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
Ultimately the character of Hope is not as button-pushing or subversive as Rauch and co-writer/husband Winston Rauch believe she is.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film makes a point of mocking Tonya Harding-style greed and clinging to faded glory, but it's crushed by a hack plot and the sense that sheer off-putting vulgarity is funny.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Though no one would accuse "The Bronze" of not being funny, it somehow manages not to be funny often enough.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
I wouldn't want to live next to Hope, but it is fascinating to watch her. And every so often it's refreshing to have a movie that dares to say - you know, no matter what all the screenwriting gurus tell you, some characters never change.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The problem with The Bronze isn't that Melissa Rauch's Hope Ann Gregory is such a nasty, foul-mouthed, terrible little human being. It's that she's not as funny as the film thinks she is.

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
The Bronze often feels like an extended skit, but Hope is so refreshingly unladylike and the movie is so refreshingly cynical about gymnastics that the results are surprisingly amusing.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
As it stands, "The Bronze" is just clumsy, caught between the same conflicting impulses it tries to depict - the compulsion to be outrageous and the desire to be loved.

Name : Joe Dziemianowicz / Alias : New York Daily News
"The Bronze" isn't a brilliant game-changer, just a funny and filthy diversion.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Rauch is so committed to her snotty, bitter, up-speaking protagonist that she finds the real humanity lurking there.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
This indie comedy could have been a brutal yet endearing midwestern cult classic a la Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), but instead it's petty and repulsive.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
All this plays out with a crudeness ranging from tedious to delirious.

Name : Tricia Olszewski / Alias : TheWrap
Hope is overall too knee-jerk mean to like very much. But Rauch's timing is impeccable, wringing a smile even after minor jokes.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
I found myself admiring "The Bronze" . But admiring isn't quite the same as liking. This film is a comedy wrapped in barbed wire; approach with caution.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
From the troubled child who communes with the beyond to the featureless suburban home that hosts malicious spirits, this movie ticks all the boxes for modern mainstream shockers.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
This enjoyable-despite-itself horror flick has precisely nothing new to offer - with the arguable exception of a monster in a miniskirt, which may be a first.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : New York Times
"The Pyramid," despite an unpretentious matinee vibe, is mostly interesting in seeing how little light can be on screen before a bare minimum of suspense and coherence dissipates. There is, truly, not much to see in this movie.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Levasseur plants and executes the pic's exclamation-point scares with grinning, squelching gusto. It matters little that most of the jolts have been lifted from previous movies .

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The air inside the pyramid isn't the only thing that's stale in this ludicrous yet mildly likable horror film.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
If you're looking for cheap scares and have 90 minutes to kill, you could do worse than The Pyramid. But not a lot worse.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A stinker in every sense.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like so many filmmakers before him, Levasseur doesn't seem to grasp that in the horror genre, less can be more.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
These B-movie touches aren't especially scary, and the characters are too paralyzed with fear to have much fun with the silliness.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
It's hard to know what's worse, the under-lit "found footage" from the documentary team or the wretched dialogue.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Some things were never meant to be uncovered. Some movies, too.