Flux Gourmet

critic Reviews

, 85% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Flux Gourmet isn't for all tastes, but viewers attuned to writer-director Peter Strickland's unique wavelength will find this horror-laced satire a savory delight.
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    Mark KermodeObserver (UK)
    Strickland devotees will find plenty to chew on as the film makes its strange path through the digestive canals of their twisted imaginations.
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    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    The writing is sharp, the lines are memorable and Christie’s turn is divine. Yet, in the end, for all its concern with the primal forces of food, sex and death, this is a slight film...
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    Donald ClarkeIrish Times
    None more queasy. None more strange. None more alienating. None more off-beige.
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    John NugentEmpire Magazine
    A brilliant, bizarre, occasionally grotesque, horror-inflected cinematic delicacy. Sounds like a Peter Strickland film, then.
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    Paul ByrnesSydney Morning Herald
    It’s a comedy baked into a heavily crusted pie. It takes some getting to, but it’s in there somewhere.
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    David SimsThe Atlantic
    Strickland gets big laughs by having every character take their work very seriously, and Gwendoline Christie gives a splendid performance as the residency’s imperious overseer.
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    Pramit ChatterjeeDigital Mafia Talkies
    It’s a weird cross between Gaspar Noé’s Climax, Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and maybe even a little bit of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future.
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    Amber WilkinsonEye for Film
    Feels more like an amuse bouche than a full meal, while at the same time all proving a bit too much.
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    Elissa SuhMoviepudding
    Merges bodily functions and conceptual formalism to produce an esoteric and uniquely bizarre movie about artistic, and gastric, suffering...
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    Eddie Harrisonfilm-authority.com
    …a long, hard blast of Flux Gourmet’s repellent but toothless satire on foodie obsession doesn’t do much to clear the air…
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