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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 24 Jun 2015

Beware of any advertising that labels Andersson “wacky” and this a comedy. Even by deadpan Swedish standards, this is pretty dry…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 17 Jun 2015

If you've ever wondered, What if Ingmar Bergman directed Upright Citizens Brigade? then Andersson is the director for you…

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By Lynden Barber (66) for sbs.com.au (697) on 17 Jun 2015

Its absurdism is as nutty as ever and yet no less profound at moments…

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By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 17 Jun 2015

Its strangeness and repetition may turn some away, but on both a technical and thematic level, it is a work to be celebrated…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Jun 2015

Andersson's so skilled he can elicit laughter with a character walking into a frame...In thirty-nine scenes, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 11 Jun 2015

The film's tone may be one of unrelenting absurdist melancholy, but Andersson does a dynamite job alchemizing despair into big, albeit deadpan,…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 10 Jun 2015

Let's try to define its deep, dark humour by saying that if Monty Python had been founded by dour Swedes, then the troupe's Meaning of Life…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Jun 2015

It’s all as entertaining as it is outlandish…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 10 Jun 2015

Take a walk on the wild side with thirty nine scenes that make the complicated trivial…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 Jun 2015

Pigeon is a film designed to confound and provoke, sometimes to wearying effect. But it's riveting in its deadpan depictions of drained existence…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 08 Jun 2015

Maybe if Wes Anderson and Lars von Trier tried to write a sitcom together, the result would be something like A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, which…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 06 Jun 2015

For all the despair and horror on display in A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, you walk out of it as if on a cloud, light and hopeful…

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By Avi Offer (997) for NYC Movie Guru (997) on 04 Jun 2015

Effectively droll, surreal, intelligent and exquisitely-shot, but somewhat repetitive and not as captivating as Andersson's prior films…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Jun 2015

Pigeon, in its deadpan, hyper-composed way, is often paralyzingly funny, and there is compassion for the gray-faced souls wandering through it…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Jun 2015

The film skips from one quick-hit existential rim-shot moment to the next but doesn't add up to anything nearly as deep and contemplative as…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 02 Jun 2015

It's not always engaging, but if existential satire is your thing, it's definitely fun to think about afterwards…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 02 Jun 2015

There are few better ways to waste time than in the company of a Roy Andersson film - immaculately crafted eyesores that delight and challenge…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Jun 2015

It’s a series of comedic sketches about people who are too self-involved to empathize with each other…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Some critics find Andersson's latest redundant, arguing that its sketches lack the freshness of those in Songs From the Second Floor…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jun 2015

Unspools with a deft, almost buried humor that rescues it from tedium…

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