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Funny Games (2008) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Funny Games (2008) a score of 2.1105 out of 4

based on (133) reviews

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Excellent

(16)

Very Good

(31)

Good

(63)

Fair

(21)

Poor

(2)

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ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)

Paul sends Ann on a search for the newly missing family dog, and turns directly to the camera and shares a wink with the audience. It’s the first of several opportunities Haneke takes to check in with the audience from the bad guy’s point of view. The...read the complete Funny Games (2008) review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)

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Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)

Can a movie be gripping and repellent at the same time? In Funny Games, a mockingly sadistic and terrifying watch the middle class writhe like stuck pigs thriller, the director Michael Haneke puts his characters in a vise, and the audience too. I...read the complete Funny Games (2008) review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)

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eye WEEKLY (Adam Nayman)

more than the sum of its facile narrative parts....read the complete Funny Games (2008) review at eye WEEKLY (Adam Nayman)

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New York Times (A.O. Scott)

Michael Haneke�s first English-language film -- and a compulsively faithful replica of his notorious 1997 German-language feature of the same title -- subjects its viewers to a long spectacle of wanton and gratuitous brutality....read the complete Funny Games (2008) review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)

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7M Pictures (Kevin Carr)

Does watching a hoidy-toidy family of stuff shirts play “Name That Tune” with opera CDs make you wish you could watch them die? If so, “Funny Games” is a movie for you. But even I, a great fan of horror and actually like some of the hardcore fa...read the complete Funny Games (2008) review at 7M Pictures (Kevin Carr)