71
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
16(84%)
mixed
1(5%)
negative
2(11%)
Showing 19 Critic Reviews
100
A wonderful French offering whose jumping-off point is a bullfight.
90
What emerges is an astonishing debut, unlike anything else you'll see this year.
88
An amazingly self-assured movie, it percolates with themes and ideas, all held together by the gift of the bull's parts.
88
A truly remarkable and compassionate debut from a savvy, self-confident filmmaker. No bull.
88
Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.
80
Ms. Gleize, through a series of oblique, half-comic scenes and meticulous, rhyming visual compositions, offers up an elegant, discursive essay on carnality and carnivorousness -- on sex, death, meat and the ravening hunger for companionship.
80
A gorgeously morbid meditation on the interconnectivity of life.
80
Carnage is a film about the violence of living, of finding and keeping a place in the world, and though it's a work of preternaturally sophisticated philosophy from a director who's barely out of her 20s, this beautiful, bizarre movie could function quite well without its capable screenplay.
80
There's undeniable pathos to many of these encounters, and because the director has a wonderful feel for color and knows how to throw a frame around the world, there's also unmistakable beauty.
78
Ill-suited to casual viewing. But its challenges are worthwhile, and the gifted Gleize is one to watch.
