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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 May 2015

A magnificently droll, compassionate, melancholic reflection on the absurd human comedy…

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By Donald Munro (227) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 31 May 2015

By abandoning conventional story elements and exaggerating the mundane and tedious, Andersson is able to highlight the humanity of his characters…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 26 May 2015

No ready comparison for Andersson comes to mind other than Samuel Beckett, with whom he shares a spare, precise style and a fondness for vaudeville…

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By Matthew Connolly (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Roy Andersson's latest film perches decidedly above the world it studies, gazing down fixedly upon its inhabitants from a perspective at once…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 25 Apr 2015

The spirits of Samuel Beckett and Spike Milligan waltz through this beige-green purgatory, a series of arresting static-camera vignettes, pasty…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 24 Apr 2015

The kitchen-sink realism is actually set-bound and masks sneaky absurdist tendencies. Still life? Hardly…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 23 Apr 2015

Roy Andersson is a single-panel absurdist who subverts the traditional set-up and knockdown gag structure, landing his punchlines like rimshots…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 22 Apr 2015

Sweden's Roy Andersson offers a singular take on the human condition in this triumphant trilogy-closer…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 22 Apr 2015

What an incredible film-maker Andersson is - he has created an entirely unique epic movie-cycle that has to be seen to be believed…

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By David Hughes (139) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 19 Apr 2015

If Chris Morris had grown up in Sweden watching Jacques Tati and Ingmar Bergman films, he might be making films like this…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 19 Apr 2015

One of the strangest films you’ll see this (or any) year, it unsettles, bores, elates and amuses in equal measure…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 19 Apr 2015

Modern life may indeed be rubbish but Andersson communicates that sentiment with a certain amount of sorrow and an awful lot of style…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 19 Apr 2015

Excruciatingly funny and streaked with coal-black humor…

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By Chris Fyvie (70) for The Skinny (809) on 16 Apr 2015

Profound but never oppressive, (Andersson's) thought-provoking and ostensibly dark thesis is of civilisation trundling along in perennial fug…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 17 Sep 2014

The specifics of what happens in these vignettes is less important than precisely how they're constructed…

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By Zachary Shevich (27) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 10 Sep 2014

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is a beautifully shot, artfully funny, and oddly poignant view of humanity from Roy Andersson…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

The uninitiated, meanwhile, can start with Pigeon and work their way backward through Andersson’s trilogy. It only gets better in reverse…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2014

This is the first of Andersson's movies to actually feel like a full feature and not a linked anthology, yet it's the one that works the least…

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By Jo-Anne Titmarsh (79) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 02 Sep 2014

Despite the deathly pall over everything, Andersson's film is a warm and funny flight of fancy…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC.com (1,500) on 01 Sep 2014

Roy Andersson's films are more distinctive than those of any other writer-director working today…

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