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An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, Audition entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama.
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A stomach-turning masterpiece. December 10, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A stomach-turning masterpiece.
Peter Bradshaw
This movie, at just under two hours, is a long crawl from inception to climax. November 30, 2001 | Rating: 2/4
This movie, at just under two hours, is a long crawl from inception to climax.
Jim Sullivan
Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie. November 29, 2001 | Full Review…
Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie.
Patrick Z. McGavin
A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento. November 16, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.
Kevin Thomas
This brazen shocker is never less than compelling -- even when you feel compelled to shut your eyes. November 1, 2001
This brazen shocker is never less than compelling -- even when you feel compelled to shut your eyes.
Steven Rea
There will be many people who consider Audition an atrocity, and a few who find it a stimulating cinema experience. October 19, 2001
There will be many people who consider Audition an atrocity, and a few who find it a stimulating cinema experience.
Louis B. Parks
A horrific tale about the mysteries of unseen boundaries. Whatever you do, don't watch it with the person you love. It gets rather awkward. [Full review in Spanish]. December 9, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A horrific tale about the mysteries of unseen boundaries. Whatever you do, don't watch it with the person you love. It gets rather awkward. [Full review in Spanish].
Federico Furzan
The film is a brutal examination of social isolation and malaise, and the gulf that often exists between men and women. July 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The film is a brutal examination of social isolation and malaise, and the gulf that often exists between men and women.
Chuck Bowen
A divine and delicious slice of Asian horror that is worthy of its status as an iconic piece of not just Asian horror or J-horror, or even horror as a whole, but as an iconic piece of cinema. April 11, 2018 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
A divine and delicious slice of Asian horror that is worthy of its status as an iconic piece of not just Asian horror or J-horror, or even horror as a whole, but as an iconic piece of cinema.
Andrew Pollard
Takashi Miike's startling blend of gentle family melodrama and graphic horror is easy to either admire or hate, but impossible to ignore. March 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Takashi Miike's startling blend of gentle family melodrama and graphic horror is easy to either admire or hate, but impossible to ignore.
Edna Fainaru
But it's one man's pursuit of one woman who turns out to be so much more of his crazed counterpart than he could have ever feared, which makes Audition so petrifying. November 30, 2017 | Full Review…
But it's one man's pursuit of one woman who turns out to be so much more of his crazed counterpart than he could have ever feared, which makes Audition so petrifying.
Brian Gibson
With escalating unease and a switch and bait that Hitchcock would be proud of, Audition culminates in its infamously disturbing dnouement. March 1, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
With escalating unease and a switch and bait that Hitchcock would be proud of, Audition culminates in its infamously disturbing dnouement.
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