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2017
Not Rated
Shudder
1 h 34 m

2017
Not Rated
Shudder
1 h 34 m

Summary Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, KUSO depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Viewers travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived, experiencing a hallucination that is half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy. [Shudder]

Directed By: Flying Lotus

Written By: David Firth, Flying Lotus

2017
Not Rated
Shudder
1 h 34 m

2017
Not Rated
Shudder
1 h 34 m

Kuso

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews

51

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

6.6

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Summary Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, KUSO depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Viewers travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived, experiencing a hallucination that is half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy. [Shudder]

Directed By: Flying Lotus

Written By: David Firth, Flying Lotus

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews

45% Positive
5 Reviews

45% Mixed
5 Reviews

9% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews

45% Positive
5 Reviews

45% Mixed
5 Reviews

9% Negative
1 Review

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Jun 30, 2017

Kuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking.

By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer FULL REVIEW

Jul 4, 2017

“It’s the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era” has become trite, so I’ll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit. But that can be comfortingly frank when it feels like the world is on fire, but we’re all just going to smile anyway.

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User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

60% Positive
3 Ratings

20% Mixed
1 Rating

20% Negative
1 Rating

User Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

60% Positive
3 Ratings

20% Mixed
1 Rating

20% Negative
1 Rating

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Jun 30, 2017

Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience.

By John Fink FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Jul 27, 2017

Sensitive readers should be informed that Kuso is not for you; even those with a strong tolerance for monster-movie gore are far from guaranteed to accept its warm, clumpy bath of repugnant ickiness.

By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

Jul 20, 2017

If nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother.

By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW

Jul 27, 2017

It’s probably a tautology to say that the patchwork surrealism of Kuso doesn’t hang together as a coherent experience.

Jun 30, 2017

The referentiality of “Kuso,” its general snark, and even its defensive self-criticism (characters state “I hate this movie!” more than once) fail to make it any more funny or inspired, let alone any less of a shapeless chore to sit through.

By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Brainfeeder Films

Release Date Jul 21, 2017

Duration 1 h 34 m

Rating Not Rated

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• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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