Hors Satan (Outside Satan)
New Yorker Films | Release Date: January 18, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumJan 17, 2013
Dumont's rigorous, serious attention to the mysteries of good, evil, and faith rewards those willing to be confounded. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonJan 15, 2013
Bleak and compelling. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 15, 2013
Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film "Humanity" – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJohn Semley Jan 14, 2013
Bruno Dumont's employment of his bucolic French backdrop here attends to Hors Satan's muddying spiritual ambiguity. Read full review
70
NPRMark JenkinsJan 18, 2013
Strange and uncompromisingly personal. It's also vivid and unforgettable. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJonathan KieferJan 15, 2013
Ultimately less an arty provocation than a secular invocation, Outside Satan seems almost helplessly exploratory, an honest account of groping for grace. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 17, 2013
Despite its pictorial intensity and the extremity of some of its scenes, the film proceeds in a mood of detachment, turning the suffering physical beings under its scrutiny into abstractions. Read full review
60
Total FilmSimon KinnearJan 15, 2013
The vagueness won't win Dumont new fans, but his enigmatic allegory of intertwined good and evil does linger in the mind. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D AngeloJan 16, 2013
As its title suggests, Satan grapples with the existence and nature of evil in the world, but it's hard to take such weighty matters seriously when they're explored with all the subtlety and grace of an anti-abortion pamphlet. Read full review
58
IndieWireEric KohnJan 15, 2013
The problem with Outside Satan is that the filmmaker has remained faithful to expectations without enlivening them. It's a curious exercise unworthy of his expertise, but then he may realize as much. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 15, 2013
The promise Dumont once showed has ossified into unholy shtick. Read full review
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