The Twentieth Century

I loved the way it uses expressionist tropes and subverted thing...a little bit Monty Python...

Finally, the film dissolves in silliness and whimsy, but not before it's given us some surreal spectacle.

It ends up being a smashingly good and goofball history of the non-world of Canadian history and flim-flammery, deeply committed to its own colonial crazy.

"The Twentieth Century" lacks the demented, all-encompassing artistic vision of a Maddin movie... but it's a welcome diversion and Rankin's send-up of Great White North Great-Man pieties is at times inexplicably hilarious.

At a time when normalcy has routinely backflipped into a pool of insanity, The Twentieth Century makes perfectly perverse sense.

These performances and several others resonate against Dany Boivin's sets like echoes, and that cohesiveness allows "The Twentieth Century" to achieve a degree of centrifugal force that holds your attention even after your eyes glaze over.

A glimpse into the debasement of a national icon is perhaps an appropriate reminder of Canadas dual role on the world stage simultaneously boastful exemplar and timid underdog.

There's no question that the director has ample technical facility ... [but] there's ample cause for disappointment, then, when it comes to The Twentieth Century.

A nightmarish absurdist comedy that's full of good cheer and whimsical silliness even as it presents an almost unendurably cynical understanding of civilisation.

With an endlessly absurd plot and consistently brilliant production design, this is the anti-biopic to beat for the winter season.