Club Zero
Film Movement | Release Date: March 15, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7
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8
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0
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83
Original-CinLiz BraunMar 28, 2024
It’s creepy as hell, watching these kids with no purpose and a desperate need to be doing something important become sucked into notions about self-control and salvation. Read full review
83
The PlaylistCharles BramescoMay 24, 2023
Taken as a bone-dry satirical comedy, this would be a cruelly glib treatment of material sensitive enough to merit a trigger warning in bright yellow prior to the opening credits. But this agonizing tour through private agony deserves to be taken more seriously than that. Read full review
80
Film ThreatSabina Dana PlasseNov 16, 2023
Quirky and uncomfortable but hard to turn away from, Club Zero is reminiscent of Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, especially because it has a tone of below-average existence masked in contemporary and forward-thinking superficialities. Read full review
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonMay 30, 2023
Riddled with uncomfortable dialogue, audacious sequences, and a piercing score, Club Zero has all the ingredients to become a future cult classic. It’s for a great reason, too. The film contains a terrifying yet wonderful performance from Wasikowska, it includes brilliant commentary on the dangers of following blindly, and it provides great entertainment. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 24, 2023
What we’re seeing in Club Zero is the formation of a cult. And what makes Hausner, who is from Austria (this is her second English-language film), such a skillful and daring filmmaker is that she draws you into the cult mentality in all its interwoven layers of obsession, insecurity, conformity and faith. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMar 15, 2024
Club Zero has a monotonous quality, ultimately, because existing with a Brutalist-architecture ideology is monotonous. Still, the film exerts an unnerving pull. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 22, 2024
The dry nature of the material and how it is treated limit the drama in this subject and flattened-out performances lower its entertainment value. But it’s daring, any way you slice that single potato wedge you’re having for lunch. Read full review
60
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerMar 29, 2024
Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque. Read full review
50
Screen DailyWendy IdeMay 24, 2023
It looks terrific – as always Hausner’s use of colour and costume is striking and eloquent – but this is a thinly-written picture that operates on a largely superficial level. Read full review
42
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 26, 2023
Club Zero is less a cautionary tale about eating disorders than a satire on environmental anxieties, extreme activism, and the sometimes-competitive nature of those who get swept up in it. That’s a tasty premise, but Hausner’s take is frankly a cynical one and, much like the plate of vomit that dominated headlines after the film’s premiere last week in Cannes, it leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 24, 2023
It’s always been hard not to admire Hausner’s audacity, but this time around the boldness of her storytelling finally spills into trollish provocation. Read full review
42
ColliderTherese LacsonMay 24, 2023
While the group of actors who play the students offer strong performances, particularly Luke Barker, Ksenia Devriendt, and Florence Baker, Hausner's meandering feature eventually concludes without a real ending. Read full review
40
Little White LiesHannah StrongDec 5, 2024
While it would be unfair to suggest Hausner is condoning Novak’s actions, there is a sort of nihilistic glibness about the film which leaves a sour taste. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 24, 2023
Teenage idealism curdling into cult-like insanity is a punchy, timely subject. But it’s hard to discern what Hauser and her regular co-writer Géraldine Bajard actually want to do with it, or how much sympathy their film has for Miss Novak’s follower-victims. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 24, 2023
Club Zero is a strenuous, pointless non-satire which fails to say anything of value about its ostensible subjects: body image, eating disorders and western overconsumption. Read full review
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