77
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
13(87%)
mixed
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Showing 15 Critic Reviews
100
A collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy--the apocalypse as a joke on us.
100
In place of a conventional plot, this utterly unique Swedish movie offers a series of related episodes -- Some are funny, some are tragic, all are dreamlike and unpredictable, suggesting that the 21st century will be a lot weirder and wackier than we expect.
100
Andersson catalogs misery of many kinds, and aside from the moments of humor in the film he offers no balm.
90
Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do.
88
"Songs" is a delight. It's a visual feast and often hilarious.
88
A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.
80
Andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar; absurd, yet tremendously sad. The haunting score is by ABBA's Benny Andersson.
80
A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist.
80
Often seems more old-fashioned than modern.
75
The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.
