The Lobster
A24 | Release Date: May 13, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
40
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounMay 16, 2015
Yes, The Lobster is arch: this is cinema in quotemarks, tongue-in-cheek storytelling that uses absurdity to hold a mirror to how we live and love. At its best, it has incisive things to say about how we shape ourselves and others just to banish the fear of being alone, unloved and friendless. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 16, 2015
It’s an adventure which begins by being bizarre and hilarious but appears to run out of ideas at its mid-way point, and run out of interest in what had at first seemed to be its central comic image: humans turning into animals. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 13, 2016
Lanthimos doesn’t have the directorial energy to stir this thick allegorical stew. Lacking any of the conventional action-thriller movie skills, his deadpan style may be the only one available to him. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 24, 2016
More a movie that you appreciate and ponder than one you embrace and enjoy. Whatever its intellectual pretensions, I am looking forward to never seeing it again. Read full review
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