81
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonIt's the rare contemporary film that's as majestically and gruelingly rigorous in its form as in its thematic interrogations.
- 90The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergIt is provocative simply in showing how trust is gained and kept, even after the swindled kids have understood their robbers’ motives.
- 80The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasLittle about [Östlund’s] work is simple-minded or cut-and-dried. His films marinate in viewer discomfort.
- 80The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesThe message is laid on slow and thick, but it's no less powerful for it.
- 70VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinPic is a little too pleased with its own evenhanded presentation of liberal moral conundrums, but there’s no gainsaying Ostlund’s remarkable achievement in coaxing entirely naturalistic perfs from his young core cast
- 60EmpirePatrick PetersEmpirePatrick PetersMay be contrived and overlong, but it is also technically distinctive and utterly compelling in its analysis of Swedish attitudes towards race.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe ultimate effect of [Östlund's] studied techniques is more restricting than beneficial, which, combined with a protracted running time, faintly self-righteous air and a perplexing, misguided coda, produces a sense of letdown at the end despite the strength of much that has come before.