BeSummers
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
christopher-underwood
From the very start this is worrying and bewildering. Gradually we become to understand what is going on but it remains worrying. Quite right too because this, allowing for some artistic licence, is what happens when a parent decides to rule supreme and the other parent goes along. Most often we hear of such phenomena in parts of the US, often with a particular religious involvement/justification. But here carried to absolute extreme, before our very eyes, is the full effect of 'loving parents' who cannot allow the outside world, in any form, to challenge their own idea of 'bringing up children'. Some have referred to this as 'amusing', well I smiled once or twice but basically, this is horrifying throughout. Albeit fascinating.
riven-yuki
This is my first review here. Now, as the title says, just because we can do it, doesn't always mean we should every weird ****** idea in a movie. the 3/10 I gave was because the message was good and new. But it's portrayed in the weirdest way possible. The movie talk about the dangers of keeping children from the outside world for the sake of "protecting them", but you don't need nudity, extreme sexual themes and animal violence to do that. If you really want to express sexual desires, you can do it just by showing vague stuff(like actors taking off their shirts and hen cutting) that imply what you want. People will understand your message and you won't have to show all these adult scenes, which are just scarring really and not fun in any way.
OneEightNine Media
The most twisted and revolting film I have ever seen. This film is sick but an interesting study in human nature and also unfortunately entertaining. ScreenJunkies put this on my radar. I honestly do not know what to say, humans can be this sick and twisted. Just look at what is going on in Burma right now - so yeah, morally evil stuff happens a lot but now the next level horror has found its way into mainstream entertainment over the past ten years or so. Does that mean as a society, we are changing to normalize the horrors of the world as it continues to drop into the lowest common denominator where was I? Whatever. We're finished here.
Naive-fox
Having recently seen Yorgos Lanthimos' "The lobster", I was well aware of what to expect from this early job of his. Maybe "The lobster" weakened the punch that only the first film from a director can deliver. Perhaps altering the viewing order would have swapped my opinion in both films. Or perhaps I simply find Lanthimo's essay in family bonds, seclusion and education flat and too unnatural.Yorgos Lanthimos' fresh breath in cinema is always welcome. The weird and tense atmosphere of Dogtooth is masterfully crafted, if sometimes over the line and beyond. The overuse of explicit sexual themes and some graphic scenes may drive some people away. While some are there for a reason, many are thrown in for pure shock value.Yet it is the forced innexpressivenes of the actors that bothers me the most. Trying to recreate a mechanical, unaffective behavior of three teenagers raised in seclusion, their lack of expression goes often over the top failing to create any kind of response on the viewer. The lack of sense in some of the parents' actions and the children's lack of any analytical skill doesn't help a film that goes too far to reiterate the same concept over and over.Dogtooth's open ending may fit best a film of his kind, but ultimately leaves the viewer with too hollow a sensation of non- conclusion after over ninety minutes of reiteration.
