Critic Reviews

• Marta Barber, Miami Herald

  Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind.

• Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

  Carnage has some narrative messiness. But the beautiful thing here - besides Gleize's fabulous eye - is that not a single one of her solutions for the healing that takes place in her characters' lives is predictable.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  The sort of film whose makers would be pleased to hear it called 'unclassifiable.' A more accurate description is 'unfathomable.'

• Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

  Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.

• Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times

  With Carnage, a pungent tale of love and sacrifice, French filmmaker Delphine Gleize has fashioned a modest epic about our ridiculous human comedy.

• Ty Burr, Boston Globe

  Gleize has a number of award-winning short films under her belt, and she directs this magical-realist fable with originality and disarming confidence.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off.

• Kent Turner, Film-Forward.com

  [Director] Gleize has nevertheless written an imaginative and loopy script where the twisting storylines, each with its own distinct tone, eventually connect.

• Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

  there are far better movies that don't try your patience like Carnage does

• Michele Kenner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  Patience will reward those who don't mind non-linear storytelling, but some of the stories aren't worth the wait.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  Feels indulgent, far too long and, yes, very French ... but while it lasts you can't take your eyes off the screen!

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  Gleize is a smart director with a fresh eye, and she finds inventive ways to underscore her theme, which is that good things and bad things happen to most of us in roughly equal measure but that, somehow, we keep plugging away.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  For those who are patient, there are quite a few things to admire, including the performances and the film's ambitious, audacious storytelling conceits.

• Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune

  Whimsical irony is matched with arresting visuals throughout Carnage, and those moments carry the day even if you don't buy Gleize's everything-is-connected bull.

• Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News

  The film eventually becomes tedious, but there are enough flashes of moral intelligence and cinematic inspiration here to make one eagerly anticipate Gleize's sophomore effort.

• Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine

  It's very European, and extremely intriguing.

• , E! Online

  Whereas most movies about serendipity and degrees of human separation usually fail by trying to pick profundity from, well, dry bones, here, director Gleize knows that to dig too deeply only distracts one's attention from the strange comedy of life.

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