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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. Dec 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. Nov 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. Nov 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. Nov 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. Nov 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. Oct 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 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. Apr 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. Mar 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. Nov 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 dénouement. Mar 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 dénouement.
Rachel Bowles
If you can stomach it, this profoundly moving film will leave you dazed. Dec 13, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
If you can stomach it, this profoundly moving film will leave you dazed.
Alan Jones
Whether reading Audition as a portrait of coming to terms with grief, a feminist revenge tale, or a graphic exploration of romantic attachment and idealism, it remains a terrifying film. Mar 9, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Whether reading Audition as a portrait of coming to terms with grief, a feminist revenge tale, or a graphic exploration of romantic attachment and idealism, it remains a terrifying film.
Mark Pfeiffer
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