"With this film, it can be confidently said that Austria’s greatest director isn’t Michael Haneke, but Götz Spielmann, who’s made a stunning work that ideally balances powerful drama, ingenious storytelling, precise casting and pure cinema."
-- Robert Koehler, filmjourney.org

"Precision-caliber focus ... In his first major screen role, Krisch is a standout in an excellent ensemble."
--Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

“With Revanche his strongest work yet, Spielmann creates strong expectations for the future.”
--Alissa Simon, Variety

“As it unfolds with calculated intricacy and diabolical inevitability, it overturns conventions and preconceptions to construct a haunting parable of crime and punishment, redemption and revenge.”
--Peter Keough, FIPRESCI

“A potent, sympathetically observed tragedy.”
--Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

"[Revanche] quietly attested to Spielmann's virtues as both writer and director: his patience, his watchful eye, his essentially compassionate view of human nature. The film goes off in all number of fascinating directions, at least one of which is totally unexpected. Yet it works -- magnificently, in fact."
-- Shane Danielsen, indieWIRE

"Spielmann elevates the genre to a new level."
-- Paul Moore, SpoutBlog

“A galvanizing psychological thriller worthy of repeat viewings.”
-- Robert Bell, exclaim.ca

"Revanche is the kind of taut, thinking-adult's drama that America stopped producing 30 years ago.”
-- Darren Hughes, longpauses.com

“A superb existential thriller that haunts you long after you’ve left the theater ... Avoiding cheap sentimentality and one of those scores that pushes buttons, Spielmann’s set piece will draw you in.”
--Yama Rahimi, IONCINEMA.com

“A thing of sheer beauty, the kind of film in which the details of each individual scene - composition, rhythm, performances, stray bits of business - are all so perfectly judged that their cumulative force kind of sneaks up on you.”
-- Mike D’Angelo, The Man Who Viewed Too Much

“Revanche is what we call a grower, its complexity gaining in richness with every turn.”
-- Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“[A] gorgeous, brooding, unpredictable neo-noir ... it’s dynamite.”
-- Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“A subtle, poignant and thoroughly captivating film ... Masterfully and subtly, Spielmann puts on the screen all the emotion that can ripple just beneath the surface of lives and personalities, near and felt, but unseen and out of reach.”
--Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser, The Vienna Review

“A profound revelation ... Spielmann combines a meticulous structural form with emotional truth, a thorough poetics with a penetrating understanding of human nature.”
--Robert Koehler, Cinema Scope