Canada |
The Globe and Mail
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"An integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content. Often, looking into that mirror is dreadful; but, often enough, it's also dreadfully revealing" |
POS
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United States |
Chicago Reader
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"Stupid, vicious, and pretentious, though you may find it worth checking out if you want to experiment with your own nervous system." |
NEG
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United States |
New York Daily News
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"Deeply humanist and emotionally complex" |
POS
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United States |
The Washington Post
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"Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds" |
NEG
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United States |
Chicago Sun-Times
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"Most people will not want to see the film at all. It is so violent, it shows such cruelty, that it is a test most people will not want to endure. But it is unflinchingly honest (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" |
POS
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"Noé is like Kubrick crossed with de Sade in the age of underground vérité porn; (...) After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design" |
NEU
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United States |
AV Club
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"There are strong ideas at play in Noé's undeniably audacious and technically stunning second feature" |
POS
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United States |
SFGATE
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"Noe isn't a graceful filmmaker. He wants to traumatize his audience, barnstorm us, make us pay in anxiety and sweat and scorched nerves for the ugly truths he wants us to swallow." |
NEG
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United States |
SlashFilm
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"Gaspar Noe's brutal tale is effective no matter how it's told (...) As emotional as it is disturbing" |
POS
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United States |
New York Post
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"Truthfully, it's all incredibly boring." |
NEG
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United States |
The New York Times
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"The performances certainly don't stir up much emotion. Except for the sodden Mr. Dupontel -- whose shadings of remorse bring the only real feeling to the film's morbid intensity -- no one else creates a character. And it's why 'Irréversible'' is ultimately forgettable" |
NEG
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