Rubber
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: April 1, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceKarina LongworthMar 29, 2011
An essay on storytelling and spectatorship within When Inanimate Objects Attack schlock - one infused with the haunting aura and disillusionment of a post–"Easy Rider" road movie - Rubber is some kind of miracle. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn LevyApr 14, 2011
Rubber is engaging, brisk and smart enough that the audience wins, too. It's grand, mindless fun that makes a thoughtful point. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnMar 29, 2011
Dupieux's utterly zany slice of narrative subversion transcends that singularly goofy premise to create one of the more bizarre experiments with genre in quite some time. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 31, 2011
If you meet the fiendishly deadpan Rubber halfway, its assured mix of cinephile artiness and grindhouse spoof will offer some oddball surprises. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 31, 2011
While it can be seen as an environmental horror movie (if you must), Rubber doesn't dig down but instead merrily rolls on, as Mr. Dupieux plays with narrative and form. In one wonderful cinematic coup the tire spots a crow and shifts toward the bird so that it's framed in the tire hole, an angle that turns the tire into a camera. Point. Click. Explode. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 14, 2011
Rolls straight over silly, smashing through stupid without stopping and then barreling into a kind of insane comic brilliance without so much as a speed bump to slow it down. Read full review
75
NPRIan BuckwalterApr 1, 2011
What sets Dupieux's film apart is its unexpected secondary dimension: an absurdist meta-commentary on cinema itself that hilariously articulates the notion that the movies stop existing the moment we stop watching, like the sound of an unobserved tree falling in the forest. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle SmithApr 1, 2011
Picture Monty Python writing an unusually odd "Twilight Zone" episode directed by surrealist Luis Buñuel. Or just empty your mind of all sense: This is Rubber. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 5, 2011
Maybe Rubber is an homage, maybe it's a statement on horror films and their audiences, maybe it's a total goof. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 31, 2011
It is, in effect, a movie-house meta mirror, warped and weird, strange but true (except when it isn't). It's whatever you want it to be, which doesn't necessarily make it a great movie (although it contains moments of greatness), but it IS – by virtue of its premise alone – boldly unique. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMay 13, 2011
It's a fun one to talk about -- if only for the opportunity to shake your head in amused disbelief at what you just saw. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerMar 29, 2011
Where Rubber veers off the road is that for all its giggly moments and meta-whatever, it's never quite funny enough or scary enough. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 28, 2011
The carnage is cartoonishly graphic, but the onlookers watching through binoculars from a nearby sandy bluff are impressed. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyApr 7, 2011
Though it's undoubtedly ingenious, for such a clever movie, it's a shame Rubber couldn't be more fun. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirApr 3, 2011
Mostly it's got a barely tolerable level of metaness. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliMar 31, 2011
Rubber has its share of jollies, at least when it isn't boring us to death with the fourth-wall-busting monkey business. Although I appreciate Dupieux's efforts at satire, the audience-interaction subplot goes nowhere fast. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasMar 31, 2011
While it's admirably perverse for a "killer-tire movie" to be this snooty, it's about half as clever as it thinks it is. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 29, 2011
To the movie's small credit, there's very little grasping for larger significance: It's a dumb horror film, complete with a sexy female lust object (Kaboom's Mesquida) undraping for a shower scene. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweMar 28, 2011
With a homicidal tire as the main character, the film isn't scary enough to qualify as horror and not nearly as amusing as a black comedy should be. Read full review
40
VarietyLeslie FelperinMar 28, 2011
Neither scary, funny, nor anywhere near as clever as it seems to think it is, picture offers audiences few reasons to want to see it beyond its one-joke premise. Read full review
25
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMar 31, 2011
Rubber could have been a modest horror novelty, a wicked, malevolent version of "The Red Balloon." Read full review
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