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The Dinner Game

Comedy Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
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United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Empire
Empire
"Veber delivers a marvellously-wrought plot at exactly the length it can sustain (...) A classic example of the French farce (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"  POS
CanadaCanada The Globe and Mail "It's a long time since I've heard a press screening audience applaud a foreign film, but then it's a long time since a French movie has been as funny as The Dinner Game" POS
United StatesUnited States
SFGATE
SFGATE
"The timing of Villeret and Lhermitte is clean and winning (...) The film's many phone bits are particularly brilliant."  POS
United StatesUnited States
ReelViews
ReelViews
"There are times when the comedy works, but the number of genuinely amusing sequences are outnumbered by those that, in trying to generate laughter, simply seem silly" NEU
United StatesUnited States
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
"The Dinner Game works thanks to some exceptionally strong acting, impeccable timing and rapid-fire delivery of many funny lines." POS
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker
"No one could claim that the film is a distinguished contribution to cinema, but it would be churlish to resist its geniality and speed" POS
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