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  • Summary: Deals with the complex and fascinating relationship between 40 year-old Jean-Luc (Berling), a successful gerontologist living in a wealthy Parisian suburb, and his long estranged father (Bouquet).

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  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Curiel
    100
    Under Fontaine's direction, family dysfunction is an intense experience with unexpectedly positive repercussions, even if the steps between are painful and potentially deadly.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    100
    The most disturbing and effective thriller I've seen in many moons. Rarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    40
    A disappointment after the droll, breezy suggestiveness of Fontaine's equally Freudian "Dry Cleaning," How I Killed My Father is rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations.

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