New Statesman October 26, 2022 When a director’s brand is cynicism, every choice can seem calculated for effect over meaning.
Rolling Stone October 8, 2022 Triangle of Sadness seems hemmed in by its tastefulness… The actors try their best, but Östlund’s insistent conceptual droning overtakes them.
The Spectator October 27, 2022 Östlund needs someone like my mother in his life to tell him it’s not clever, it’s not funny, pack it in.
The thing about Östlund is that he makes you laugh, but he also makes you think.
The Guardian September 7, 2021 While I’ll confess that most westerns have me at howdy, Old Henry is a determinedly low-aiming affair.
Boston Globe October 13, 2022 It’s not so much that all the characters are so unsympathetic. It’s that they’re all so uninteresting. Caricature without gusto is shrink wrap cove...
The Reveal December 19, 2022 Finn uses the strength of his conceit to turn the screws, raising tension through the Ring-like timeline Rose faces and the sheer relentlessness of...
ReelViews October 20, 2022 As was the case with The Square, Triangle of Sadness takes some time to get going and occasionally slips into pretentiousness, but on this occasion...
Don’t go in expecting art-house intellectualism. The movie is as loaded with fun as it is with social implications.
The Guardian October 30, 2022 Swedish director Ruben Östlund takes no prisoners in his satirical approach.
This thoughtful and sometimes horrific anime-style sci-fi thriller series is an engrossing piece of work based on a collection of short storie...
The Ringer October 11, 2022 Triangle of Sadness’s central scene goes on and on, intensifying without abating and never suggesting that order can ever be restored…
RogerEbert.com February 15, 2022 A smart, extremely watchable horror show that would likely become a big hit on a streaming giant but might get lost on Epix. Find your way to it.
Little White Lies September 7, 2021 A modest treat with a barnstorming turn from Tim Blake Nelson.
Financial Times October 27, 2022 A messy satire about wealth that occasionally uses a scalpel – but more often a scattergun.
Times (UK) October 31, 2022 Yes, the metaphor can seem very on-the-nose: the super rich, in this economic climate especially, are obscene and repulsive! But it’s a...
Variety September 7, 2021 A rock-solid, off-the-beaten-path Western, one that’s been built as a kind of pedestal for Nelson’s performance.
Houston Chronicle October 18, 2022 This take on "Titanic" by way of "Das Kapital" and "Gilligan's Island," which admittedly does have its pleasures, has about as much subtl...
indieWire February 15, 2022 Like many of the shows it’s inspired/imitating, depending on your view, it spends too much time setting up its world and not pushing the story forw...
It is beautifully shot and the horror feels distinctively American… It also had its chilling moments, when you’re not fuming about the ineleg...
Bloody Disgusting February 15, 2022 A captivating and nightmarish mystery box show that more than delivers on horror. Perrineau and He are standouts in a talented ensemble cast.
Tim Blake Nelson is marvelous as a withdrawn widowed farmer whose violent past will come in handy once he takes in a wounded stranger wanted b...
The film is directed by Matthew Warchus, who is the artistic director of the Old Vic in London and worked on the original stage production. He has...
Detroit News October 27, 2022 Östlund is shooting fish in a barrel here, but if his targets are glaring, there’s at least some fun to be had along the way.
There’s great heady stuff going on and also really weird fun in this film too.
Hollywood Reporter September 7, 2021 It evolves into a satisfying reflection on the more complicated, somber realities behind the icons of the Wild West, separated from the embroi...
New York Times September 30, 2021 "Old Henry" makes a solid, honorable go of proving once again that the foursquare western isn’t dead, though in paying homage to it...
There are a couple of good scenes… but nothing substantial enough to warrant the two-and-a-half-hour running time.
Östlund’s slog of a film is exceptional in the distance it creates between the viewer and its characters and in how comfortable its attempts a...
Nelson, smartly, grasps that shifting from supporting to lead isn’t about letting go the economies of character actor portraiture, but stretc...
The New Republic October 10, 2022 In Ruben Östlund’s satire, the amusements of the moneyed elite belie a foundation of violence, cowardice, and shame.
Hyperallergic June 27, 2022 Triangle of Sadness has no politics beyond gesturing toward extreme wealth and power and saying, "That ain’t right,” and it has no counterpoint to...
[A] disappointingly blunt satire of class and status…
Filmspotting November 4, 2022 There is scarcely a gag or scenario that isn’t telegraphed and obvious, and yet it’s seemingly just as satisfied with its own cleverness as it...
Östlund has characters and metaphors to bludgeon, and the joie de vivre with which he lays waste to the idle rich and the system that keeps them in...
Austin Chronicle October 15, 2021 As it stands, there’s a healthy amount to admire and for some it may be enough to scratch a certain itch. But much of Old Henry feels a...
The Australian December 23, 2022 There’s an interesting cast of mostly unknown actors (Harrelson excepted) and the film is very well staged. Maybe the Cannes accolade was a bi...
Empire Magazine October 24, 2022 An absurd, iconoclastic riot. Ruben Östlund’s point may be blunt – yep, rich people are bad – but his telling of it is hilariously, breat...
After that final breathless shot, rather than walking out chuckling, you may walk away with your own triangle of sadness engaged, brow furrowed, mo...
It’s certainly an enjoyable watch, but not quite as well-executed as Force Majeure or The Square.
Associated Press October 6, 2022 The ideas might not be new, and the targets might be easy, but [Ruben Östlund] has once again made something exceedingly uncomfortable and undeniab...
It pummels its points decisively, convincingly and with a ferocity you’ve just gotta admire.
Triangle Of Sadness takes it to the next level, and bids fair to win big too.
In the past, Östlund has shown a deft facility in sending up meaty topics… Here, however, he stoops to the broadness ascribed to his work by i...
In a somber, often underwhelming season of would-be arthouse hits, the movie is a bona-fide trip: not the funhouse mirror we need for the...
Austin Chronicle October 13, 2022 Instead of skipping lightly over rough seas, Triangle of Sadness bobs to shore like a floating sarcophagus.
Globe and Mail October 6, 2022 In setting up and then obliterating such easy targets, Ostlund has created a self-indulgent and lazy screed that mistakes anger for wit, scold...
Subtlety is not the primary aim in this film’s portrayal of class – and it’s a nasty hoot because of it.
If not for de Leon’s bold and heartsick performance, Triangle of Sadness would fail to achieve any real measure of the physical discomfort that has...
There’s no doubt about Östlund’s visual acumen—the camera movement and cinematography cover you in laughing gas—and yet, you’re never quite sure wh...
Hollywood Reporter February 18, 2022 From offers enough glimmers of promise that it’s tough to write off entirely.
indieWire December 3, 2021 A mediocre film might be excused somewhat by the merit of some ambition, but the problem with "Old Henry" is that there isn’t enough of...
TheWrap September 7, 2021 At times you wish it could be more expansive, but the truth in this beautiful elegy is that you don’t really need more action than what you c...
Blake Nelson, one of our finest actors, gives Henry’s mysterious inner life physical expression.
Ruben Östlund’s latest brainy satire is a continually self-renewing yet uncompromisingly coherent opus.
Sentimental, fantastical, and unabashedly moony, it’s a romance and a storytelling apologia all in one.
Wall Street Journal September 30, 2021 The greatest reward of Old Henry is Mr. Nelson’s performance. Though he’s never been conventionally handsome – and his character t...
A very simple and ingeniously crafted cowboy yarn.
Slant Magazine September 11, 2022 Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s pessimism ultimately leads the film toward a self-negating dead end.
Independent October 27, 2022 One already notorious sequence aside, Triangle of Sadness feels a little like gnashing at air.
AV Club February 15, 2022 There is far more about From that works than doesn’t…
Washington Post October 12, 2022 As always with Östlund, his most profligate flights of fancy tack close enough to reality to ring queasily true.
Triangle of Sadness needn’t be a fair film… A more carefully shaped argument would have been appreciated, though. And one that didn’t dissolve...
The Guardian May 21, 2022 Strident, derivative and dismayingly deficient in genuine laughs…
RogerEbert.com October 7, 2022 Östlund is shooting fish in a barrel, but the fish had it coming, and he cooks them up into a tasty meal, complete with sea urchin and sq...
[A] rather laborious take on the excesses of capitalism…
Yes, trust is its own treasure – and their gold-digging partnership promises a sequel.
New York Times October 6, 2022 This, in the end, is a very bad movie, executed with enough visual polish and surface cleverness to fool the Cannes jurors, something Ostlund...
Chicago Reader October 25, 2022 Despite Ruben Östlund’s shortcomings and imprudent tropes, Triangle of Sadness is harrowing, consistently funny, and packed with surprises.
Empire Magazine August 3, 2022 Shrugging off the Lost comparisons for the most part, there is plenty of entertainment to be found in From – even if it occasionally feels more gen...
Who could resist a film in which a sweet old lady watches a live grenade roll down the deck and come to a rest against her foot, then turns to...
TIME Magazine October 7, 2022 You can fully agree that most "haves" are dreadful, and that the "have nots" deserve much more out of life, and still be exhausted and bored b...
Irish Times October 29, 2022 The relish of the attack, the invention of the imminent mortifications and the cool precision of Östlund’s filmmaking rescues Triangle of Sadness.
"Triangle of Sadness" feels both bloated and slight, stretching out a shrewd but limited thesis that all the world’s a market about as far it...
BBC.com December 27, 2022 Delightfully bonkers on the surface, this inventive extravaganza from the directing team called Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) has a de...
There are subtle little gags scattered between the more obvious ones… but overall the satire is scattershot.
The Guardian July 27, 2022 Like Solaris, but less high concept.
New Yorker October 7, 2022 Only the fine cast lends life to the movie’s superficial caricatures, even if the hectic, blatant script edges the performances toward the clattery...
RogerEbert.com October 1, 2021 Tim Blake Nelson … has the most convincingly exhausted and forlorn hangdog expression in contemporary cinema.
Nelson has long been a character actor who makes almost every film he’s in even better. Here, Ponciroli gifts him with one of his best r...
Playing an isolated farmer who finds a fugitive, the character actor Tim Blake Nelson delivers world-weary greatness.
Daily Telegraph September 7, 2021 It’s a film that creaks as reassuringly as leather.
Fox 10 Phoenix February 18, 2022 It’s a crackerjack premise brought to life by a uniformly excellent ensemble, and those are reasons enough to watch this corker of ...
