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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The Robot's Voice (149) on 19 Nov 2014

Like so many Russian works of art, this is bleak, bleak stuff. You might want that four-way vodka by the end…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Nov 2014

The pitiless way Zvyagintsev metes out punishments to all is savage…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 07 Nov 2014

At 141 minutes, this Russian-language film set in a remote fishing village could certainly be shorter, but it couldn't be very much better,…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 06 Nov 2014

The wonder of Andrey Zvyagintsev's brilliant new film is that it works both as a Chekhov-style family tragedy and as an extremely barbed satire…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Nov 2014

Watching this staggeringly well-made Russian drama is like reading a great novel: it leaves you feeling changed at the end…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 06 Nov 2014

The cold beauty of setting and themes leave a lasting wonder…

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By Philip Concannon (108) for The Skinny (809) on 05 Nov 2014

[Leviathan] presents modern Russia as a country rotten to its core - corrupt, hypocritical and godless…

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By Hannah Mcgill (136) for The List (2,018) on 04 Nov 2014

Brimming with emotion, unflinchingly tense, and often darkly, painfully funny, this is a film possessed of both classic sweep and sharp contemporary…

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By Philip De Semlyen (78) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 03 Nov 2014

Frustrating, funny at points, heartbreaking and quite magnificently shot throughout, Leviathan is one of the films of the year…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Empire (3,446) on 03 Nov 2014

Frustrating, funny at points, heartbreaking and quite magnificently shot throughout, Leviathan is one of the films of the year…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2014

The end result is a film that, after offering a number of potentially heroic narratives, takes pleasure in undercutting each of their claims…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Jul 2014

This feels immediate and urgent, in addition to being a trenchant and tough-minded tragedy…

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By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

17th Century English political philosophy meets 21st Century Russian fury in Andrey Zvyagintsev's bone-rattling epic, Leviathan…

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By Jo-Anne Titmarsh (79) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 26 May 2014

The sweeping seascapes and beauty of the landscape the director captures are a hymn to this troubled and troubling country…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 25 May 2014

One leaves in little doubt that Zvyagintsev is one of our era's true masters…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 23 May 2014

Rather than building towards the finality of a single climax, Leviathan injects several of them into the tapestry of its elegant design…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 23 May 2014

Leviathan is acted and directed with unflinching ambition, moving with deliberative slowness and periodically accelerating at moments of high…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 May 2014

Simultaneously a modern essay on suffering, an open-ended thriller, and a black social comedy, it is most importantly of all a thinly-veiled…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

If there was ever any doubt as to Zvyagintsev's position as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, it's put to rest here…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 23 May 2014

This is the director’s most accessible and naturalistic film, using everyday characters to test how well modern-day Russia is maintaining…

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