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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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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 Holly Y (54) on 30 Apr 2015

Yes I saw this and yes it is weird but still fascinating. Funny and absurd the digital film gives it a sharp almost stage like scenery…

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By Stephen W (423) on 30 Apr 2015

Yes I saw this and yes it is weird but still fascinating. Funny and absurd the digital film gives it a sharp almost stage like scenery…

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By Caroline M (68) on 28 Apr 2015

Random. we watched it on a Wednesday not a Thursday…

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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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