Descent

...its powerful first third captures the events leading up to a date rape with sickening, step-by-step plausibility.

The actress's heartening sense of nuance complements Lugacy's more deliberate and forceful feminist agenda...

...some of the content is sexy, the violations awful, and the fear and dread upon her first post-rape encounter with her attacker palpable.

...goths up the chilly brutality of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, and it adds a realistically soul-searching quality lacking from the shock classic I Spit On Your Grave.

Rosario Dawson goes deep into fear and loathing as a college student who gets date-raped.