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Mar 17, 2021
78
If you are unfamiliar with Dupieux’s cinema of meta shenanigans, Keep an Eye Out serves as a solid starting point. For those already indoctrinated, it’s another welcome dispatch from cinema’s premier purveyor of perplexing paradoxes.
Mar 3, 2021
75
There’s not a lot of depth to Keep an Eye Out, but there is a singular vision at work and at play.
Mar 4, 2021
70
Dupieux pulls off this bizarre procedural in a lean running time while hitting the notes of darkness and drollery just right.
Mar 4, 2021
70
The delightfully daft, dialogue-driven result makes for a languid farce that mischievously flips a funhouse mirror on jaded audiences to welcome, if fleeting, effect.
Mar 3, 2021
67
Like a Saturday Night Live sketch that airs in the show’s final 10 minutes, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out tosses around ridiculous comic ideas as if secure in the knowledge that few people will ever see them.
Mar 5, 2021
63
For all that goes into making a movie—the prolific Dupieux wrote, directed, shot, and edited this one as with his previous films—the impulsive, scattered storytelling here almost feels like an unrewarding and contrarian statement to such hard labor.
Mar 3, 2021
50
Quentin Dupieux imbues a trite genre scenario with a Kafkaesque brand of comic existentialism.
Mar 11, 2021
50
It’s a mildly amusing trifle, but Dupieux has already made several of those. It’s one thing not to challenge your viewers, but another not to challenge yourself — something Dupieux has shown little interest in doing.