Funny Games

The film outstays its welcome and is more than a little too knowing in its manipulation of standard audience expectations for the genre.

Haneke's snooty admonishments are disturbing because they're never self-critical.

Brilliant, radical, provocative, it's a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable.

It's a film you might argue with, but its sparing use of on-screen violence, some extraordinarily protracted scenes and sensitive handling of thorny subject matter make it also a film you ought to see.

This beautifully acted and paced German variant of Cape Fear ... is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance.

The basic puzzle is why this sophisticated director chose this tired formula.

While Funny Games takes us on an entirely unpleasant journey, it at least plays with form and forces us to question our role in the entire disturbing affair. Long takes and patient pacing force us to reckon with the horrors unfolding on the screen.

Haneke's audacious home invasion film is as confronting as it is effective. This is a masterclass.

It’s a disturbing thriller that I found to be smart and compelling but also brutally painful and sometimes emotionally unbearable.

[Funny Games] uses the narrative of a typical slasher film set within the confines of a home and makes fun of the set expectations and clichés in the audience's mind.