Taxidermia
Metascore
83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Empire
    Reviewed by: Patrick Peters
    60
    Keeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Matthew Sorrento
    100
    Only for fans of the bizarre and certainly not for those with even a faintly weak stomach. But for those meeting both qualifications: Welcome to a devious little nightmare.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ed Gonzalez
    90
    All this helps to shape Pálfi’s crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder and annihilation.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    100
    A brilliant, often grotesquely bizarre allegory on life in Hungary from World War II to the present.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    Despite its stomach-turning images (and maybe because of), it is a daring, provocative work by a talented helmer who gets off pushing the envelope. He should be supported, no matter how outlandish he gets.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    67
    Frequently funny, for those who can stomach it.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Duane Byrge
    90
    For a film so pessimistic about mankind, Taxidermia erupts with some light-hearted technical inspiration: Cinematographer Gergely Poharnok's compositions are wickedly hilarious, while production designer Adrien Asztalos' concoctions are peculiarly gross.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    100
    Belongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    90
    Taxidermia sets a benchmark for body horror in the cinema.

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