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By Alberto Sáez Villarino (72) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 24 May 2017

What really scandalous of it lies in the naturalism of its content and the simplicity of the events and the actions. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Luis Martínez (274) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 24 May 2017

A vocationally cold and abstract film that walks in the eye like the lugubrious and devilish cantata of, in fact, the end. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Leonardo Garcia Tsao (41) for La Jornada (66) on 24 May 2017

The bad European conscience and nihilism as the only correct posture are some of the issues now shuffled in which it is a very minor work…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 23 May 2017

Most good films rely on their audiences to connect the dots a little, but Happy End is all dots, with none of the lines drawn in at all…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 23 May 2017

Rather than smothering the material in bad vibes, the filmmaker uses them to gradually reveal a fascinating world in which anger and resentment…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 23 May 2017

Haneke’s integration of the ways we communicate and conduct our lives via phone and laptop feels uniquely effective…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for The List (2,018) on 22 May 2017

It is bleak and pitiless, combining black comedy and brutal satire to cut to the bone as he skewers the horrors of bourgeois complacency…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 21 May 2017

Haneke brings to this horrific melée his own icy humour and formal clarity: he is the Vermeer of alienation…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 21 May 2017

It’s as if the director has tied up loose ends from his earlier films, while forcing us to re-examine issues that have only grown more dire…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 21 May 2017

The director’s game is level, and typically mischievous, but lacks something - and it’s not just the vicious sting at the end of, say, Hidden…

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By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 21 May 2017

To say that the film lacks a clear focus would be true enough but this, surely, is Haneke's very point…

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