Who Killed Bambi?
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Marchand capably builds suspense, thanks to a twisty script and nervy performances by Lucas and Quinton.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    Seizes on a primal fear and flogs it for two hours.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    The truly creepy thing is that there's no bizarre, COMA-like conspiracy behind the malfeasance, just an awful betrayal of trust -- the kind of thing that sends an icy, paranoid chill through the blood just as the anesthetic takes hold.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    A long and uneventful snooze.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: David Ng
    50
    Too vague in its cat-and-mouse play to succeed as a psychological thriller, Who Killed Bambi? fares better as a visual exercise in white-on-whiteness.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    40
    Effectively creates a menacing atmosphere within the gleaming white halls of the hospital in which it is set, but its story line and characterizations lack the sufficient originality to lift the film above its many better predecessors.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Watching it is like a slow injection of a numbing anesthetic. It may send a chill to your heart, but along with it goes a warning signal to your brain not to believe a word of this hooey.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Delivers only annoyance and impatience.

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  1. ChrisH.
    9
    This film deliberately fails to color within genre boundaries, a fact that resulted in the confused appraisals of many of the critics listed above. Even those critics who applauded the film judged it as a thriller, when in fact it is a dead-on social, political and philosophical allegory that is rendered in a hauntingly beautiful visual style. The lifeworld/hospital in which Dr. Phillippe and Isabelle make their limited and predetermined moves is a frightening reflection of the spectacular and fragmented media universe we all inhabit, and in which our dreams more often decay than flower. This is one of the best and least understood films in recent memory.… Full Review »
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