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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Oct 2013

Style can't fully compensate for a tale that, underneath its gorgeous affectations, proves undercooked, especially during a third act that…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 21 Oct 2013

Renowned French director Claire Denis' latest is a perplexing film, that's often lurid and disturbing…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 16 Oct 2013

The murky plot makes vengeance a dish that is best served scrambled…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 10 Oct 2013

As black and sticky and inescapable as a tar pit - a movie whose darkness swallows its characters and the audience whole…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2013

Conditioning the audience to find dread in every seemingly innocent gesture, the film turns even the simplest touch between family members…

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By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for House Next Door (153) on 05 Oct 2013

There's no shortage of bastards in this tale about the destructive power of a deeply dysfunctional family, but if the men inflict most of the…

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By Juuso L (93) on 25 Sep 2013

Eliitin dekadenssia, sadistisia orgioita, huumeita, pahuutta. Näistä aineksista on tehty paljon parempiakin virityksiä…

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By Antti Q (108) on 24 Sep 2013

Dark thriller with a heavy atmosphere taking you slowly, piece by piece, to the inevitable and gruesome end, accompanied by an excellent soundtrack…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Sep 2013

While Bastards is never less than enthralling while it unravels, its resolution feels shallowly sordid, as if the entire movie was really just…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 13 Sep 2013

Put simply, Bastards offers confirmation were it needed that Denis remains one of the most exciting and innovative directors working today…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Aug 2013

Even at its most opaque, Bastards always exerts a dreamlike pull rooted in Denis’ rhythmic layerings of image, sound and music…

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By Jon Frosch (191) for France24 (78) on 25 Jul 2013

A mesmerising, deeply disturbing thriller…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 27 May 2013

Simultaneously surprising and inevitable, all doled out in a dreamlike nature…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2013

The Bastards feels like what happens when an undeniably great filmmaker stoops to sensationalism -- it’s a smarter, odder film than someone…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 24 May 2013

Bogged down by flashbacks and flash forwards, The Bastards pointlessly mixes up its ingredients, creating a distancing effect from the tangible…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 24 May 2013

Denis's drama intrigues more than it actually delivers...Sleight of hand is all well and good. But sooner or later a film must pay up…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 24 May 2013

An ill-organized revenge tale that unfolds in needlessly incoherent fashion, and despite a rather salacious, sexy premise, fails to get the…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 May 2013

Like Denis' sublimely impenetrable The Intruder (2004), the point is to get hopelessly lost in the film's eerie, unsettling flow…

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