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Dec 10, 2015
100
It’s a surprising and often thought-provoking effort from a filmmaker who has never chosen to take the simple path, confirming Larrain as one of the more genuine talents working in cinema today.
Dec 10, 2015
100
A bold, blunt, yet clinically intelligent film that provokes as much for its dark humor as for its righteous outrage, it's all at once a gripping thriller, an incendiary social critique and a mordant moral fable.
Dec 10, 2015
100
Those willing to enter The Club will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain’s fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.
Dec 10, 2015
100
The Club sees the film-maker at his most masterful, steering the picture through complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria, even when the characters do.
Feb 9, 2016
100
Though profoundly upsetting, The Club’s assault on institutionalized hypocrisy never risks feeling unjustified.
Mar 21, 2016
100
What’s most winning about ‘The Club’ is how Larrain manages to allude to the wider structures, behaviour and corruption of the church without ever making this claustrophobic, moody and very local story feel anything but crucial, thrilling and disturbing.
Feb 19, 2016
88
We can't but enjoy the movie and its oddball characters - which makes us somehow complicit in their crimes.
Dec 10, 2015
80
The Club is an enthralling parable that's calibrated to shock and amuse in equal measure.
Feb 9, 2016
80
It’s occasionally beautiful, but just as often stomach-turning. You watch it at a remove, but still with a dull combination of pity and horror and regret. Maybe that’s the idea. For a brief, agonizing moment, you share the spiritual quicksand with these disgraced men.
