3/4

The movie is unforgettable and will cause a reaction from you, whether you like it or not. Me? I liked it's sick, twisted sense of manipulating the audience

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06/18/08

C+

Flogging the audience is one thing, but to deny them free will in their role - thus responsibility - is something else.

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06/12/08

3/4

After several years of "torture porn" horror flicks, Funny Games sets the counter back to zero, reminding us that torture isn't fun, isn't stimulating, and isn't something we should be getting off on.

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06/09/08

N/A

In Funny Games, Haneke seems content to ram his thumbs into our eyes and then ask us why we were foolish enough to get within arm's length of his gray, grizzled visage.

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06/09/08

2/10

...a lurid piece of business, made all the more offensive for its apparent higher aspirations.

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06/09/08

3/5

toso idio me to prototypo, poy aksizei na to deis mono an den to%u0384hes dei, i an theleis na to ksanadeis

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05/06/08

1/5

What's terrible and irritating about the film is that Haneke isn't doing it to tell a story. He just wants to punish us for wanting to see this movie in the first place.

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05/01/08

N/A

This is a piece of art. The direction is amazing, the performances are top-notch, and the pot-boiling pace is pitch-perfect.

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04/19/08

3.5/4

We want retribution, we want reparations, we want revenge, but Haneke refuses to submit to our pleas, because he's the storyteller, and he's the one playing the games. Magnefique...

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04/14/08

3/4

It's hard to imagine why anyone would want to subject themselves to the harrowing brutality of 'Funny Games,' but give German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke his due - his movie is shockingly effective.

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04/09/08

5/5

At heart, Funny Games is about the totalitarianism of cinema itself.

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04/03/08

N/A

It's an intellectually and morally challenging film that'll still have you shouting at the screen and lurching in your seat with every jolt.

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03/26/08

C

I defy you to find another movie with this much contempt for its audience.

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03/25/08

2/5

...static, slow-moving and perversely timid...

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03/25/08

2/4

... Makes a valid point, but I didn't need a two-hour lecture to get it.

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03/23/08

2/4

Not only is it a carbon copy, but such recent genre movies as 'Hostel' have examined the attraction of screen violence with greater immediacy and subversiveness.

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03/21/08

N/A

The movie assumes you know all this already and shows it to you anyway.

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03/21/08