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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Modamag.com (300) on 28 Dec 2009

Contains crippling, extended acts of sexual violence and general inhumanity, yet, under the bleeding rawness of it all, was a film of brilliant…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Feb 2009

Noé;, with his Nietzsche-for-knuckleheads nihilism and extreme-cinema ambitions, clearly fancies himself a visionary, but mounting a camera…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Suite101.com (114) on 20 Nov 2008

The lurid gimmick of a barking sideshow host…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon (312) on 15 Aug 2008

Noé isn't a kid (he'll turn 40 this year) but he's still young as a filmmaker; he may yet learn to control his desire to sear the audience's…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 03 Mar 2008

The moral of Irreversible -- time destroys everything -- isn't nearly as profound as writer-director Gaspar Noé seems to think it is, which…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 23 Sep 2007

Noe is a confrontational master, no question…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Film Scouts (224) on 20 Jun 2007

The film is almost unwatchable at the beginning, but the chaos and horror of the swinging camera stabilizes, the film becomes more structured…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 19 Mar 2007

The 12 scenes of Irreversible--each shot in a single, semi-improvised take--constitute something of a tour de force…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Dec 2006

What's wrong is the decision to let all the actors improvise their lines...At the end, Irreversible looks less like captured or even distorted…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 21 Nov 2006

Me? I'm going to go watch The Brady Bunch to wash these images out of mind…

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By Dan Wible (1) for Film Threat (5,156) on 18 Nov 2006

Let me set the record straight: Gaspar Noé is the real deal. Is he excessive? Yes. Manipulative? Sure. Pretentious? Absolutely…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Sep 2006

After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design, but there's no doubt that he's a new kind of dark film wizard: a poet…

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By S. James Wegg (203) for JWR (201) on 10 Oct 2004

film does make one point beautifully: no matter which way a story is told, a bad script cannot be salvaged…

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By Mark Sells (183) for Oregon Herald (104) on 12 Aug 2004

You'll leave the theater wishing the two hours you spent were not so irreversible…

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By Josh Gilchrist (44) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Mar 2004

While Noé's vision can seem unrelentingly sadistic and sexist, the film's raw emotion keeps it afloat…

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By Moira Sullivan (52) for Movie Magazine International (27) on 29 Sep 2003

The detached clinical methodical style of some reptilian film critics since its release scrutinize the positioning of the camera in the rape…

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By Rod Gudino (4) for Rue Morgue Magazine (29) on 03 Sep 2003

Irreversible is I Spit On Your Grave for the intellectual set…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Jul 2003

There are strong ideas at play in Noé's undeniably audacious and technically stunning second feature, which goes as far as any film can in…

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By Charlie Brown (11) for FilmStew.com (638) on 03 Jun 2003

While this movie does not encourage repeat viewing, those film fans who can steel their emotions will experience a singular film that will…

Review of Irreversible (2002)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 18 May 2003

not a great film, and not an easy one to watch, but it is an important one, a powerful argument against our old ways of doing business…

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