Michael

  • 2017


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Positive Reviews 19
Negative reviews 3
Average Rating 3.6/5
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3.0
Its a chilling film about the routine business of unspeakable acts. Av Club
4.0
Is that the sound of the Austrian Tourist Board pulling down the blinds and shutting up shop.Austrian writer director Markus Schleinzer brings the gri .. Time Out
1.9
For one thing, Schleinzers distanced anti psychological methodology threatens to render the film little more than a dismal formal exercise.
2.0
A hermetically sealed creep fest that seems to have no desire to be anything more than just that.
4.0
Its neither sensationalist nor trite, and the questions it asks are intelligent and thoughtful.
3.8
Dreadful as the subject matter is, the authenticity of the performances and the skill of Schleinzers filmmaking are difficult to deny in this portrait .. The Globe And Mail
2.5
Then there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the done to death slapstick humour that hits you round every bend.
2.5
This is cheap when it comes with a Hollywood happy ending and no better without. Village Voice
4.0
Great final shot, too.Michael is a haunting and powerfully disturbing drama with a superb script and a terrific central performance from Michael Fuith .. View London
3.8
Austrian Markus Schleinzer makes an impressive directorial debut with Michael, the disturbing story of the title character, a 35 year old pedophile wh .. New York Post
3.5
Fuith and Rauchenberger might even be just too goodthe film is that hard to watch at times. Film Journal International ..
3.5
There are a few dramatic developments, some of which briefly boost the tension into thriller territory.The director can cast a chill with the simplest .. Npr
5.0
You can still see what the picture is.When I first saw Michael last year, I wondered whether this film really told us anything new, for all its brilli .. Guardian
3.0
Mostly the picture is blank, a credible series of scenes that invite us to make of it what we will. Guardian
4.0
In recent decades, directors such as Ulrich Seidl, Gotz Spielmann and the great Michael Haneke have delivered some of the grimmest films ever to darke .. The Irish Times
2.0
American audiences unfamiliar with the stalking brutality of modern Austrian cinema take note; Michael is one very upsetting cinematic cup of mulch an .. Coles Mithey
4.0
From these on paper clues an aesthetic already emerges: coldness and cruelty with bursts of warmth and normalcy. Film Comment
4.0
This chilly, matter of fact portrait of a pedophile is as hard hitting as any tabloid hysteria. The Skinny
3.0
Free love, at least one nudist, and an alarming lack of privacy are amongst the predictable plot points in this strained comedy. Scots Man
4.0
Intentionally unnerving from the first moments, its a hard movie to watch, but its also fantastically, agonizingly suspenseful. No La
4.0
This time its in a horror film, which in itself is no surprise: children populate the genre.This, however, is a picture with familial antecedents that .. New Republic
4.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh .. New York Time Out
4.0
Its full of tension and dread, and yet it never exploits its subject matter. Cinema Autopsy
4.0
A Monster in Kansas examines the shocking attack on John and Carole Duffields kids by Michael James Cade, who killed one, raped and murdered another a .. Monsters And Critics



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