Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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A brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted.
100
Slly, sublime, buoyant mischief that is virtually without parallel in 20th-century art, much less 20th-century film.
100
This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized.
100
Movies don't come more original, inventive, or outlandishly entertaining.
100
Frightening, funny, profound, and mysterious.
100
A masterpiece.
90
In the nearly 30 years since the movie was released (it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1972), one forgets how falling-about-funny is this mad caper.
90
One of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match.
88
If there's a granddaddy of breezy situationalism, it's probably Buñuel.
88
A classic of subversive surrealism.
