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By Mike Mccahill (552) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 22 Jan 2013

Low-key and suggestive, Berberian probably isn't for gorehounds, but it's a persuasive study of breakdown…

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By Nathalie Atkinson (93) for National Post (1,405) on 22 Jan 2013

The narrative rule of thumb is show, don't tell, but this film does the opposite, to sinister effect…

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By Thomas Caldwell (278) for Cinema Autopsy (278) on 05 Dec 2012

Berberian Sound Studio is a masterfully made film that will please audio experts, cinephiles and horror fans…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for StaciWilson.com (64) on 06 Nov 2012

I appreciated the caressing style of the cinematography, fetishizing and sexualizing even the most inanimate and mundane recording equipment…

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By Adam Ross (121) for The Aristocrat (121) on 26 Sep 2012

Unfortunately, this film enters Lynchian territory (read: it makes zero sense) in the last act and in an act of cinematic proctology, it disappears…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Nerdist (550) on 25 Sep 2012

almost seems like the result of a perverse Lars von Trier exercise: make a movie that's a tribute to a particular genre without showing…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 11 Sep 2012

even the most astute viewer will be hard pressed to explain what the heck is going on here…

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By Brad Miska (152) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 10 Sep 2012

While beautifully crafted, it's impossible to recommend this to anyone who hopes to have an entertaining movie-going experience…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 08 Sep 2012

It's rare for a movie to be so cool yet also be so disappointing…

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By Alan Jones (357) for Radio Times (2,421) on 05 Sep 2012

A dazzling curio in which every sound effect reverberates with multiple meanings…

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By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 05 Sep 2012

Peter Strickland's crafted the perfect metaphor for film spectatorship: essentially, how sound functions to augment the moving image, induce…

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By Cameron Williams (256) for The Popcorn Junkie (236) on 02 Sep 2012

Puts a dent in the mind that is sure to keep people pondering until the end of days…

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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 02 Sep 2012

The final third is nonsense and in danger of resembling a Monty Python sketch at one point…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

Strickland disorients viewers with a sly meta-horror that reflects upon both the artifice that goes into genre films, and the uncomfortable…

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By Caroline Jowett (26) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 29 Aug 2012

The fun of the film lies in the tricks of the trade used before the age of computers and digital effects and older viewers will feel a shiver…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 29 Aug 2012

Some are hailing it as a masterpiece. I'd say it's a missed opportunity…

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By Antonia Quirke (220) for Financial Times (1,822) on 29 Aug 2012

You never get to the point where you think this is it, or that the film has even truly begun. Not that you ever want things to end…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Aug 2012

The estimable Jones does a very good job of conveying Gilderoy's mental disintegration, but as psychological thrillers go Berberian Sound Studio…

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By Ashley Clark (57) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Aug 2012

Psychedelic aesthetics, psychogenic fugues - it is the disorientating giallo Lynch might have made…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 29 Aug 2012

Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting…

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