Sasquatch Sunset
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: April 12, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 9, 2024
It's a special movie that can make you laugh out loud numerous times at gross comedy and then make you think and feel something, too. There’s also something to be said for a movie that seems like the most fun these actors ever had. Read full review
100
IGNClint GageFeb 2, 2024
A bizarre tale about a family of sasquatch is an emotional masterpiece of experimental cinema and fart jokes. Read full review
90
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 23, 2024
Writer-directors David Zellner and Nathan Zellner’s fifth feature is easily their finest, a portrait of a Bigfoot community that starts out as an absurdist comedy before slowly transforming into a moving study of survival and loss. Read full review
88
Washington PostTy BurrApr 18, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset is a goofball curio touched with genuine sadness. It’s “The Cherry Orchard” of cryptozoology. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJun 18, 2024
What the film shares with the Zellners’ previous pictures is a deft handling of tonal shifts, particularly the delicate tipping point at which flippant absurdity gives way to the darker minor key of melancholy. Read full review
80
Time OutOlly RichardsJun 13, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset’s mood sits somewhere between the queasy surreality of Jim Hosking’s The Greasy Strangler and the winsome daftness of Daniels’ Swiss Army Man. It’s easy to see this following in the (big)footsteps of those and acquiring its own cult following. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyJun 13, 2024
Hang in there and it’s rewardingly novel, touchingly human and agreeably nutty. Read full review
80
EmpireJohn NugentJun 10, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset is a gloriously vulgar film about made-up monsters from children’s stories — but it is also a terribly melancholy adult story about the violence of progress. What a remarkable, unique, sad little cult oddity it is. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamMay 28, 2024
As time passes, a real sadness creeps in as we suspect that we might be witnessing the extinction of a species, though an inspired sight gag is never far away. This is a film that needs to be seen to be believed. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 26, 2024
Are we looking for the human in the Sasquatch? Or for the Sasquatch in us? The movie works either way, but in its refusal to hew to a familiar plot trajectory, it holds up a mirror to our own narcissism. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyApr 5, 2024
Even as the film abounds in behavioral details, rendering its four protagonists’ personalities in sharp outlines, it never presumes to know too much about them; the movie shows what Sasquatches are like without assuming what it’s like to be a Sasquatch. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 18, 2024
It is entirely gripping and a witty and unnerving way of representing the mysterious silence of animals and a future world in which human beings can no longer exist. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 23, 2024
Sasquatches may not exist, but miraculously enough, this movie does, and like the creatures it depicts, it must be seen to be believed. Read full review
75
Original-CinKaren GordonApr 22, 2024
If you’re willing to go with it, the Zellner brothers and their cast have delivered something that is by turns funny, sad, and, in the end, surprisingly poignant. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeNatalia WinkelmanApr 19, 2024
Consistently weird and frequently wonderful, “Sasquatch Sunset” uses its high-concept premise to consider a host of themes: collective living, coexistence with nature, longing stirred by seclusion. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 16, 2024
Messages, metaphors and micturation aside, the journey is the thing, and in this case, “Sasquatch Sunset” is a pretty good journey — and thus a pretty good thing. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMatt SchimkowitzApr 11, 2024
Everything works best when it’s coming through the performance, not the edit. Often, the directors’ touch isn’t light enough, and their forced attempts at humor upset the film’s natural balance. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownFeb 23, 2024
What we’re confronted with in the film may be less the quaint idiocy of four dull simians and more our own inability to loosen up and just live. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 23, 2024
There’s a tenderness here, not just between the Sasquatches (and even then, not always just tenderness!) but for nature itself. Read full review
75
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferJan 23, 2024
Until the final shot, the Zellner Brothers leave unclear whether all of their oddball observations are building to a grand statement about humanity or a punchline. Sasquatch Sunset can accommodate readings of both. Read full review
70
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsJul 10, 2024
What makes Sasquatch Sunset a cut above what some might perceive to be an extended Funny or Die sketch is that it’s crafted with such care and with a sense of cinematic grandeur, achieved via Mike Gioulakis’ gorgeous, mussy cinematography and the gentle pastoral sounds of The Octopus Project on the soundtrack. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 17, 2024
It is scatological in the extreme and filled with absurdist and slapstick humor, particularly in the early going. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 11, 2024
It works far better as a free-floating vibe than a movie, which can be read as a backhanded compliment or a sign of surrender. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 11, 2024
Surrender to its shaggy rhythms and you’ll find this sometimes tiresome portrait of a family of mythical beasts is not without intelligence and a strangely mesmeric intent. Read full review
70
SlashfilmBill BriaJan 23, 2024
As a celebration and an elegy for a creature that isn't and never was, "Sasquatch Sunset" is kind of beautiful and kind of ridiculous. Read full review
68
PolygonMatt PatchesApr 25, 2024
No bodily function goes untapped in Sasquatch Sunset, which happens to be a meditative communion with North America’s glorious woodland. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 11, 2024
This thing’s a journey, y’all – the miraculous coexisting with yawning boredom. Read full review
67
The Film StageJordan RaupJan 23, 2024
The rigorous perspective solely on these mythical creatures is a daring decision––a more compelling experiment than the overdramatized recent entries into the Planet of the Apes franchise––but the end result is more commendable than dramatically captivating. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 17, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset is sufficiently different that it’s almost worth seeing for that reason alone. Alas, I don’t think it sufficiently rises above the gimmick of its premise to provide a compelling reason to spend 90 minutes in a movie theater. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloApr 12, 2024
It took a second screening to better appreciate what the Zellners brought to the screen, but for some, that might not be enough to get past some of the movie’s weirder notes. Read full review
60
NMENick LevineJun 13, 2024
While there are glimmers of drama, there are also extended sections where this deliberately bewildering film gets a bit boring. Despite this, Sasquatch Sunset is worth seeking out if you have a taste for the absurd. Read full review
60
Screen RantStephen HollandApr 28, 2024
For those willing to dig deep, there is a lot to be gained from Sasquatch Sunset about what it means to be alive, our connection to nature, and the enduring power of family and resilience. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeJan 25, 2024
The film isn’t without its flaws and weird choices, but the fact that it works at all is a testament to the Zellner brothers and this incredible cast being willing to give their all for such a deranged idea. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJan 23, 2024
The Zellners’ fondness for wacky scenarios, the film’s unexpected turns and its deep appreciation for the natural world culminate in a project at once committed to a comedic bit that overstays its welcome and a somewhat poignant narrative competing for space and attention. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithApr 11, 2024
The gags seem fun and refreshing at first, but they get stale quickly. Moreover, since there is no plot and no dialogue, the quirky central idea never takes on any narrative momentum. What might have been a brilliant short subject—at, say, 15 minutes—gets stretched to its limits, and then some. Read full review
50
TheWrapMatthew CreithJan 23, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset is sometimes hilarious, often unique, and otherwise forgettable. Read full review
46
Paste MagazineFelicia ReichApr 12, 2024
As much as I delighted in the whimsy, chuckled at the art-house ambiguity and applauded two men’s depiction of how taxing it is to be a woman, I couldn’t get past her pain and suffering. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 15, 2024
The real problem with Sasquatch Sunset is that it’s distancing, in an art-project way. The movie is just too coy, too overt in the way it signals when we’re supposed to be appalled and when we’re supposed to be moved; it advertises its weirdness even as it strives to convince us how much these Sasquatch are like you and me. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreApr 12, 2024
The glee everyone involved obviously felt in getting this improbable flick made is never balanced out by a sense of why anyone would need to actually watch it. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 19, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset barely gets started – though it does have remarkable prosthetics and some lovely sunsets. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 17, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset is the kind of film that seems almost pre-ordained to reach some level of cult status. Godspeed to those who will embrace its epic-level gross-out factor. I guess I’m just more of a Bucky Badger guy. Read full review
25
The Associated PressMark KennedyApr 10, 2024
A bewildering 90-minute, narrator-less and wordless experiment that’s as audacious as it is infuriating. It’s not clear if everyone was high making it or we should be while watching it. Read full review
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