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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is ultimately about something not often explored in film: the consequences of male weakness in a world in which men are expected…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 23 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is a prickly moral comedy for grown-ups, full of sharply observed moments, spectacular scenery and masterfully manipulated atmosphere…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Oct 2014

Unlike American movies, where our identification with one character or another would likely be imposed from the outset, Force Majeure stands…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Oct 2014

As odd as it sounds, director Ruben Ostlund manages to make Tomas's crisis of masculinity — his not having lived up to expectations that…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 23 Oct 2014

Being a puckish Swedish, the writer-director Ruben Ostland slips into a tone that makes Force Majeure almost seem like a deadpan — frozen…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 23 Oct 2014

a low-pitched but potent dramedy about familial tensions…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 23 Oct 2014

Wickedly chilly...The tension isn't in heated exchanges or bracing action; instead, it's in the silence, the brooding, the doubts that creep in…

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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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