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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 28 Feb 2018

An almost prototypically underwhelming effort from Michael Haneke…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 22 Feb 2018

I'm not all that fond of being Haneke's lab rat again…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 21 Feb 2018

Haneke has a firm enough grip on the traditional tools of making movies that you remain involved through two hours of this even if you're never…

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By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 21 Feb 2018

The cast is the best French cinema has to offer, and they perform with natural ease through many long takes in Haneke's eerily unnatural film…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 15 Feb 2018

An art film in the classic sense — ambitious, provocative and hard to shake off…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 13 Feb 2018

Haneke modus operandi is to withhold information from the audience for as long as possible, forcing us to do our own investigative work…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 09 Feb 2018

Formally Happy End is a crafty piece of work, but as a social critic Haneke is less convincing than ever…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Student Edge (256) on 08 Feb 2018

Until recently, I thought [Funny Games] was his most misanthropic project to date. I hadn't yet sat through his Instagram stories…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 08 Feb 2018

Anyone familiar with Haneke will know that Happy End is an ironic title. But even by the film's unhappy end, that may be all you know for sure…

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By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Adelaide Review (243) on 08 Feb 2018

[Happy End] is study of estrangement, dehumanisation and dread…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Feb 2018

Happy End, for its part, signals a return to form for the director, who here makes a stark departure from the sweet tone of “Amour” —…

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By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 07 Feb 2018

The more you know his work, the more you'll enjoy this one, because the more you'll get the inside jokes…

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By Jay Stone (286) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 06 Feb 2018

There are many ways to talk about the louche comforts of the ruling classes, but at 75, Haneke appears to have exhausted the ones that interested him…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Daily Film Fix (355) on 02 Feb 2018

To expose hidden truths, Haneke's camera intimately informs the viewer as to character motivations…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 01 Feb 2018

This sleek study in upper-crust dread covers a lot of themes close to that semifrozen organ Michael Haneke calls his heart…

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By Diane Carson (151) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 26 Jan 2018

As events accumulate and tension builds, the impact is powerful, so much so that these self-absorbed, myopic individuals quite literally gave…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 25 Jan 2018

Unlike some of Haneke's work, Happy End can't entirely escape dullness, even as its defiant characters work their cruel ways…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Jan 2018

Haneke again looks uncompromisingly on the dark reality of how human beings live, and how their inhumane tendencies will be passed on to their…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Hammer to Nail (208) on 23 Jan 2018

As a portrait of an eccentric, wealthy clan that struggles to remain on top as their world crumbles, Happy End is another strong entry in the…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jan 2018

Haneke's family films offer zero warmth, little compassion and suicidal characters who've had it with phoniness and insincerity…

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