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By Gus Edgar (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 15 May 2018

Once Climax finds its rhythm - and with a catalogue of '90s dance music to choose from, that's easy enough done - it doesn't let up…

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By Alberto Sáez Villarino (72) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 15 May 2018

Madness is posed as a patriotic act…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 May 2018

It comes as no surprise, but Noé gonna Noé, and whether that's a positive or negative is an entirely personal distinction…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 May 2018

It’s all insane and intoxicating, and what’s perhaps most remarkable is that, ultimately, the ugliness and excess is legitimized by being…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 14 May 2018

Gaspar Noé’s remarkable psychedelic ride is his most focused achievement, a concise package of sizzling dance sequences and jolting developments…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 14 May 2018

I was shocked to discover that I was actually … touched…

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By Martyn Conterio (121) for CineVue (2,163) on 14 May 2018

The film is freaky, experimental, sometimes hilarious and unnervingly intense…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2018

This is exhaustingly exhibitionist cinema, that wants to be looked at for the sake of being looked at — for the crispness of its moves, not…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2018

There’s a spontaneity to Climax—a naturalistic immediacy born of its exceptional, energetic cast of unknowns, firing off entirely improvised…

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By Juanma Ruiz (19) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 13 May 2018

But [director Gaspar] Noé seems more interested in the absolute vacuum, because neither the characters have substance, nor the gags go beyond…

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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 May 2018

Gaspar Noé's relative narrative economy allows for Climax to feel like only a disappointing missed opportunity…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 13 May 2018

Noé has created a churning, repellent, wildly sexy tanztheaterwerk of pure Boschian decadence and derangement. It’s nice to have him back…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 13 May 2018

You may emerge from Climax, as from a full-on club night, feeling shattered and asking yourself what was the point of it all…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 May 2018

Climax isn’t so much about the inevitability of chaos, but about the sadness of watching something beautiful fall apart…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 13 May 2018

Pairing his usual boundary-pushing sex-and-drugs fixation with a vital presentation of wildly exuberant dance and movement, Gaspar Noe has…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 13 May 2018

Climax works, at least when it’s willing to be a human drama…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 13 May 2018

It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera…

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