Carnages 2002

Critics score:
78 / 100

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Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Gleize has a number of award-winning short films under her belt, and she directs this magical-realist fable with originality and disarming confidence. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: With Carnage, a pungent tale of love and sacrifice, French filmmaker Delphine Gleize has fashioned a modest epic about our ridiculous human comedy. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Carnage has some narrative messiness. But the beautiful thing here - besides Gleize's fabulous eye - is that not a single one of her solutions for the healing that takes place in her characters' lives is predictable. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: A vitally assured first feature. Read more

Marta Barber, Miami Herald: Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Yet another puffed-up exercise in serendipitous storytelling. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Though Ms. Gleize's intellectual ambitions are large and sometimes vague, her cinematic self-confidence is as bracing as her eye is meticulous. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I must admit, I've never seen a film quite like this one. Read more

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: Funny, ironic (in the best sense of the word), dramatic, sweet and metaphorical, Carnage never lets go of its witty mix. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The sort of film whose makers would be pleased to hear it called 'unclassifiable.' A more accurate description is 'unfathomable.' Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Sophisticated, coolly imaginative, and genre-carefree. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A gorgeously morbid meditation on the interconnectivity of life (and death). Read more