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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirWhat emerges is an astonishing debut, unlike anything else you'll see this year.
- 88New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardAn amazingly self-assured movie, it percolates with themes and ideas, all held together by the gift of the bull's parts.
- 88PremiereAaron HillisPremiereAaron HillisA truly remarkable and compassionate debut from a savvy, self-confident filmmaker. No bull.
- 80The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensMs. Gleize, through a series of oblique, half-comic scenes and meticulous, rhyming visual compositions, offers up an elegant, discursive essay on carnality and carnivorousness -- on sex, death, meat and the ravening hunger for companionship.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittFunny, sad, and tinged with magic realism, this ambitious comedy-drama is as original as it is nimbly directed.
- 70The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayGleize establishes her multiple plotlines fairly cleanly, though once disentangled, the individual stories don't offer enough incident to be meaningful. They don't mean that much all put together, either, but Carnage is still highly watchable, thanks to Gleize's keen eye.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonDead flesh is a ruling motif, but Gleize's airy, observant personality makes even the graphic dismemberment of the bull, scored with flamenco stomps, buoyant and fascinating.
- 70TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe film becomes a complex tissue of intersecting lives, but Gleize handles each developing story with amazing ease, and the fabulist touches are the icing on a very tasty cake.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThe episodes are uninteresting and the characters one-dimensional. Unlike the multicharacter tapestries of such filmmakers as Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson, the pretentious whole here is ultimately less than the sum of the parts.
- 30VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyAudience patience undergoes a far more brutal butchering than anything onscreen in Delphine Gleize's wildly over-reaching feature debut, Carnage.