Eating Raoul
20th Century Fox International Classics | Release Date: March 24, 1982 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
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Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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91
Entertainment WeeklyTy Burr
Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy. Read full review
90
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The most delicious blackly comic collision of sex, food and murder, Bartel's film arrives as a delightful surprise from the former court jester of Roger Corman's exploitation stable. Read full review
88
Washington PostRita Kempley
Eating Raoul is an American film that's good enough to be European. [05 Nov 1982, p.19]
88
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon Lanthier
A delirious rejoinder to the post-sexual revolution counter-culture wars, director Paul Bartel’s script crosses the let’s-get-down-to-social-brass-tacks satire of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was respectfully vindictive of Los Angeles’s middle-class hedonism, with the straight-faced über-misanthropy of Kind Hearts and Coronets. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Despite the casual homicide and a premise rich with Reagan-era political undertones, the gleeful satire draws inspiration as much from Bugs Bunny as Luis Buñuel. Read full review
80
EmpireKim Newman
It shouldn't work, but it does. Read full review
80
Film ThreatStaff (Not Credited)
An endearing view of a past time and filmmaking style – think Corman with a heart – Eating Raoul offers a bare Woronov, a prime slice of sexy-ugly that can never be duplicated, just like this film. Read full review
80
NewsweekJack Kroll
Eating Raoul is only one of the many outrageous things that Paul and Mary Bland do in this outrageous black comedy that's almost certain to be the up-from-underground movie of the year. [11 Oct 1982, p.103]
80
The New York TimesVincent Canby
It is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The appeal of Paul Bartel’s tongue-in-cheek approach is that he manages to take his story to such a ridiculous extreme, remain genuinely funny and successfully tell his perverse story. Read full review
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