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Critics Consensus: The Square finds writer-director Ruben Östlund as ambitious as ever -- and delivering an unforgettably unusual work whose challenging themes pay thought-provoking dividends.
Critic Consensus: The Square finds writer-director Ruben Östlund as ambitious as ever -- and delivering an unforgettably unusual work whose challenging themes pay thought-provoking dividends.
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An examination of social context, elitism, cultural bubbles and more, The Square is - to put it precisely - absolutely bonkers. But purposefully bonkers.
The whole experience is rough going: sometimes numbing, sometimes horrifying, sometimes merely baffling. There's a kind of artful artlessness at work here
It's funny throughout - not to say that it inspires many laughs, but it's full of irony and absurdity and is very smart.
I do not understand it.
It's laugh-out-loud funny and occasionally just plain silly. But it asks a serious question that seems more urgent with every passing day: "How much inhumanity does it take before we access your humanity?"
For all its stylishness and sophistication, "The Square" never adds up to more than its very attractive parts.
The film runs the risk of becoming an exercise in the very thing it deigns to mock - bourgeois, middlebrow values.
Its slights become increasingly less important to me compared to its affecting, memorable strengths.
Östlund asking [his social questions] seeks inciting a reaction and yet my experience watching The Square was one of indifference instead.
Östlund has made an incredibly singular comedy, that couldn't be mistaken for the work of another director working today - and even when certain sequences don't hit their mark, they possess a joyous satirical invention that makes them hard to resist.
This is a good movie. A masterpiece for the ages? Probably not. But a sardonic commentary on contemporary art and society.
You won't forget it in a hurry, but you may never come to understand it.
A bit long, but an effective critique of modern art culture nonetheless.
Super Reviewer
Though it suffers from some pacing imperfections, the film is a smart and stylish commentary on modern society, art, and human nature.
Just like with Force Majeure, Östlund creates another intelligent, funny and always gripping satire centered on characters who are forced to go through embarrassing situations, questioning also what Art really means while exposing the hypocritical animals that we are.
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