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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfHow perfectly perverse: In a summer crammed with sequels, remakes, '80s nostalgia and the frustrated sense of "What else y'got?" comes the most original nightmare in years.
- 100The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt's an exhilaratingly unpredictable experience, and not an easy one to shake.
- 80EmpireEmpireAs harrowing as it is humorous, Giorgos Lanthimos' award-winning journey to a family's heart of darkness is unflinchingly detailed, thought-provoking fare.
- 80MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeA brightly lit nightmare of patriarchy run amok.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoA highly original black comedy from Greece -- and one of the weirdest movies I've seen in a long time.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeHorror and cold humor commingle in Dogtooth, a Greek import whose screenwriters approach scenario construction like misanthropic social scientists planning an experiment -- one whose result suggests that governments might want to rethink policies allowing parents to home-school their children.
- 70VarietyVarietyThe Greek helmer's sophomore picture does exude a strange fascination throughout.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceDirector Giorgos Lanthimos lays out the rules largely through action rather than exposition, which allows Dogtooth to play as a richly satisfying, blackly comic mystery in spite of its delayed, horror-sourced housebreak plot.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottDogtooth supplies no such explanation and at times seems as much an exercise in perversity as an examination of it.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe father is the only one who can leave the house to go to his factory job, and that seems like a paradise for viewers trapped watching this clinically shot claptrap.