Audition
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69 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 48 Ratings

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  • Starring: Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi
  • Summary: When a Japanese widower holds an audition to search for a potential mate, he finds more than he expected in this eerie thriller.
  • Director: Takashi Miike
  • Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Romance
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 115 min
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    90
    During the ghastly, surreal climax, I had fun closing one eye and with the other watching various ashen older men stumble toward the exit.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    Though I hate to ruin the complex experience of following a rather calm story about a lonely widower as it becomes something else, I feel obliged to point out that the hard-core gore and soft-core surrealism of this baroque morality play may not support any theme.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Possibly the sourest revenge movie ever, Audition starts off as a sweet, low-key romance, then abruptly turns into a grisly, sadistic thriller.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 2 out of 22
  1. robz.
    10
    It's been a few months now, and the images of the movie are still vivid in my mind. It is disturbing, and shocking. But yet, that's what I look for in a horror movie. From the moment that phone rings in her apartment with the shock scene, the action never lets up.… Expand
  2. Ryanosaur2000
    8
    One of my all-time favourite horrors. Audition plays with your emotions like all good horrors should and the mundane setting adds to the impact of the nightmarish ending. This is maybe not a movie for those looking for a supernatural horror such as Ringu, or for those looking for slasher fare - this is cold blooded, psychological horror at it's best in my opinion.… Expand
  3. Jacobparker
    7
    The movie begins as a love story and if you think that this is not a horror movie, then you are wrong. At the end it happens.
    the unexpected.
    The Shocking.    … Expand
  4. TC
    3
    Not scary. Not disgusting. Boring.

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