Wrong 2012

Kate Erbland, MSN Movies: Dupieux doesn't make films for everyone, but he does craft creative and abstract trips that are more than worth going on, even if they're fantastically difficult to explain to anyone who has yet to join the club. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: It would take a firmer hand to right this "Wrong." Read more

William Goss, MSN Movies: Those on its perpetually absurd wavelength should soon find themselves left in fits of giggles. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: There's a lot going on in Wrong that shows intelligence, imagination and artistry. But I'm afraid it's another "worthy effort"/"shows promise" kind of movie. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: There's a sly brilliance to the way Dupieux responds to audience expectation by repeatedly, pointedly violating Chekhov's Law. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The key to making a movie like this work is for the characters to invest themselves completely in the weird little universe Dupieux has created for them, and they do. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: The search for a missing dog leads to weird discoveries in surreal semi-comedy. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Dupieux's absurdism is simply muddled, masking the fact he doesn't really have much to say. Read more

Joel Arnold, NPR: In Wrong, reality and the world of the film will regularly upend themselves; it's never quite reliably clear, though, that these inexplicable events are happening for a purpose. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Chicago Sun-Times: Composed of skit-like scenes and populated by gimmicky characters, the movie is flimsy, glib, and occasionally pretty funny. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: As this wry, dry and glittering near-masterpiece proclaims, life is full of wrongness, but also full of mystery and wonder. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Dupieux has to be applauded for creating a unique universe, but sometimes he seems stuck in it - to the point where we feel we're not always in on the joke. Read more

Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail: There's a winning confidence to the filmmaking, which is deceptively stylish - Dupieux favours nervy close-ups and blurred foregrounds - and some real soul in Plotnick's performance. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Dupieux makes the viewer work for it with Wrong. And it's not always worth the effort ... Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Yuck. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: It doesn't take long for the absurdist humor to pall among a pileup of nonsensical ideas that would be funnier if grounded in a less hazy concept. Read more

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: The film's heady buzz is invigorating, and there are substantial pleasures-and laughs-to be found in all its real-life-just-gone-sour strangeness. Read more