Caniba
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: October 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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VarietyGuy LodgeOct 18, 2018
How illuminating or challenging Caniba proves for viewers will depend on their amenability to Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s amoral stance and literally up-in-your-face technique. Those who aren’t provoked by its ambiguous psychological inquiry, however, may wish for a bigger human picture from this relentlessly close-up exercise. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 22, 2018
Certainly, viewers may feel a kind of seasickness, their stomachs doing somersaults during this supremely discomfiting movie. Read full review
58
The Film StageEthan VestbyOct 18, 2018
As disturbing as the film can be, at the end of the day one doesn’t really take much away from it. Read full review
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IndieWireMichael NordineOct 18, 2018
Sagawa is disturbed and alienated, but that doesn’t make him a compelling documentary subject in and of itself. Maybe that’s the point: Demystifying Sigawa takes away some of the near-mythic power that’s been attributed to him over the years. Read full review
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Film ThreatDante JamesOct 18, 2018
Camera style aside, the subject matter of Sagawa’s atrocious crimes are pretty fascinating. But it’s the pace and moments of complete dead silence that kills (no pun intended) the tension you would think would be obvious when making a documentary about a living cannibal. Read full review
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The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 18, 2018
The filmmakers, who made “Leviathan,” the striking 2012 immersion into commercial fishing, seem to be arguing that Sagawa needs to be understood beyond moralistic preconceptions. Caniba did not make the case for me. I consider Sagawa repellent, and the movie an exercise in intellectualized scab-picking. Read full review
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