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As a study in kinky insanity, Cul-de-Sac creates a tingling atmosphere. This sags riskily at times when the director unturns the screws and does not keep control of his frequently introduced comedy. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
As a study in kinky insanity, Cul-de-Sac creates a tingling atmosphere. This sags riskily at times when the director unturns the screws and does not keep control of his frequently introduced comedy.
Variety Staff
If the subject matter is bleak and bitterly serious, the tone throughout is darkly comic, while the precise imagery effortlessly conveys the tension, the claustrophobia, and the madness of the situation. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
If the subject matter is bleak and bitterly serious, the tone throughout is darkly comic, while the precise imagery effortlessly conveys the tension, the claustrophobia, and the madness of the situation.
Geoff Andrew
After two clean hits -- Knife in the Water and Repulsion -- Roman Polanski is entitled to one wild swing. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
After two clean hits -- Knife in the Water and Repulsion -- Roman Polanski is entitled to one wild swing.
Bosley Crowther
This much sounds like a standard horror-film outline, especially since Stander looks amazingly like Frankenstein. But Polanski ignores the horror to concentrate instead on macabre humor. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This much sounds like a standard horror-film outline, especially since Stander looks amazingly like Frankenstein. But Polanski ignores the horror to concentrate instead on macabre humor.
Roger Ebert
One of the best and purest of all his works. Sep 6, 2003 | Full Review…
One of the best and purest of all his works.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The sheer affectedness of the whole thing... rocks the film off its foundations and leaves one irritated to watch a talented director going through the motions of proving what an enfant terrible he is. Jan 22, 2018 | Full Review…
The sheer affectedness of the whole thing... rocks the film off its foundations and leaves one irritated to watch a talented director going through the motions of proving what an enfant terrible he is.
MFB Critics
Cul-de-sac's greatest strength is that while its script resembles a bourgeois comedy of errors, its visuals are more in tune with existential horror. Feb 28, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Cul-de-sac's greatest strength is that while its script resembles a bourgeois comedy of errors, its visuals are more in tune with existential horror.
Christopher Machell
Pristine deep-focus absurdism jolted by wide-angle twitches, utter despair treated with something akin to jolliness Nov 18, 2013 | Full Review…
Pristine deep-focus absurdism jolted by wide-angle twitches, utter despair treated with something akin to jolliness
Fernando F. Croce
Polanski tributes the [gangster-invasion film] by adding his own conceit: when there's no community worth salvaging, a threat will leave all involved floating, sans shoreline. Oct 27, 2011 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
Polanski tributes the [gangster-invasion film] by adding his own conceit: when there's no community worth salvaging, a threat will leave all involved floating, sans shoreline.
Matthew Sorrento
Polanski uses all kinds of off-kilter angles an close-ups and his actors are absolutely fearless. The pacing is a little off, as there are stretches where it gets a little long, but it upends convention at every turn and that s pretty thrilling. Oct 27, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Polanski uses all kinds of off-kilter angles an close-ups and his actors are absolutely fearless. The pacing is a little off, as there are stretches where it gets a little long, but it upends convention at every turn and that s pretty thrilling.
Eric Melin
pure Polanski through and through, made with no restraints and little outside influence, but it stumbles on its own absurdist tendencies, demonstrating how sometimes too much is too much Aug 31, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
pure Polanski through and through, made with no restraints and little outside influence, but it stumbles on its own absurdist tendencies, demonstrating how sometimes too much is too much
James Kendrick
... as assured and as perfectly crafted as anything in Polanski's career, a miniature where every facet offers multiple reflections. Aug 22, 2011 | Full Review…
... as assured and as perfectly crafted as anything in Polanski's career, a miniature where every facet offers multiple reflections.
Sean Axmaker
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