Review of Funny Games (2008) by Ty Burr for Boston Globe — 15 Apr 2008
If this is daring in theory, it's a failure in practice. Exactingly well-made, the movie is grueling and unpleasant in the extreme - that's the point - but it's also working from a specious premise, that film-school Brechtian devices can bring on mass enlightenment.
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This review of Funny Games (2008) was written by Ty Burr and published by Boston Globe on 15 Apr 2008.
Funny Games has generally received positive reviews.
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