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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Oct 2014

Ostlund is a gifted creator of malignant ambience, which he masterfully uses to keep his audience wound tight and unsure whether the payoff…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Oct 2014

This brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Oct 2014

Writer-director Ruben Ostlund (“Play”) brilliantly mines this dark material for awkward hilarity…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 22 Oct 2014

Mr…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Oct 2014

It's the rare kind of moviegoing experience that will haunt you long after you leave the theater and lead to some very awkward conversations…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 21 Oct 2014

Östland writes the conflict between husband and wife beautifully, like a scab that gets picked at until it bleeds, and he does things cinematically,…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 21 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is a good movie, but as thought provoking as the ending is, it peters out ineffectually, while the actual staging of the avalanche…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 Oct 2014

Though far too long for its wisp of a plot, this stylish film has a nerve-cinching grip that makes it more alarming than most horror flicks,…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 21 Oct 2014

An incisive, stunning and satirical look at the emotional free fall when a man and his marriage can't live up to expectations…

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By Calum Marsh (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Oct 2014

Force Majeure represents what is perhaps Östlund's most sophisticated thought experiment yet, at once provocative and wise…

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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 20 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is a gripping and deftly observed drama that adds caustic condemnation through its embracing of humour…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 20 Oct 2014

The film builds riotously via a series of verbal takedowns as male authority goes limp in the wake of a regrettable impulse…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 20 Oct 2014

Chilling, cruel and funny — in an icy, Swedish way…

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By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2014

It comes down on the essential hollowness of traditional gender roles like the avalanche that proves to be its inciting event…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 19 Oct 2014

As a slow-burn melodrama, Force Majeure is expertly crafted…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 17 Oct 2014

Women are protective; men are cowards. Here's evidence of that, delivered with the excitement of an avalanche in a hip French resort…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 16 Oct 2014

Director Ruben Ostlund is more playful than cynical in his exploration of a marriage on the rocks, and his blending of dark humour with lyrical…

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By Tom Clift (226) for Concrete Playground (635) on 16 Oct 2014

The single worst date movie to come out of the European arthouse circuit since Charlotte Gainsbourg become intimately familiar with a pair…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 16 Oct 2014

His [Ostlund] only failing is following an ending that shows Tomas' risky desperation to make amends with a coda that evens up the couple's…

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By Colin Fraser (47) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 15 Oct 2014

The pleasure of Östlund is in his command of silence and detail…

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