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41 out of 100

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4.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 141 Ratings

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  • Starring: Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe
  • Summary: In this provocative and brutal thriller, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive. (Warner Independent Pictures)
  • Director: Michael Haneke
  • Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 108 min
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 33
  3. Negative: 14 out of 33
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    100
    A chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick, that.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    50
    Funny Games is fundamentally a bourgeois exercise in authorial sadism. As the methodical games grind on, the suffocatingly beige and white surroundings start to look like a mausoleum.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    A patronizing, self-satisfied piece of work, Funny Games is Michael Haneke's way of chastising us for blindly following the traditional rules of entertainment.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 96
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 96
  3. Negative: 54 out of 96
  1. VictorM
    10
    Beautiful and brilliant. Cinema as an art, at its best. Not for the close-minded.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. SeanV.
    5
    While I love Thrillers, I almost couldn't watch all of this. I mean it starts good keeping things tense, but then it gets so brutal I didn't know what to do with myself. And I have watch almost every horror movie out their, its just I don't know how to describe it.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. HarrietH.
    3
    Utter rubbish!!!! was waiting for a good twist, and something shocking to happen and this film did not deliver!!! and what the hell was the rewinding all about? the only good thing was the young boys acting he was very good and and played his part very well. would not suggest wasting your money on this crap!!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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