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Noriko's Dinner Table

2007

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Noriko's Dinner Table

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Tidepoint Pictures | Release Date: June 13, 2007 | Not Rated

Summary: Noriko's Dinner Table is Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono's semi-sequel to the 2001 cult hit "Suicide Club," a suspense classic concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls involved in a disturbing cult. [Two Boots Pioneer Theater]

Director: Shion Sono

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 159 min

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90

Los Angeles Times

Kevin Thomas

Through a barrage of fragmented images of lurid events, escalating hysteria and sheer madness, Sono holds up a cracked mirror to modern life, inspiring the viewer to think with unexpected seriousness about what it means to be a human being. Read full review

80

Time Out

Raven Snook

This meditation on loneliness and the definition of family is a lot less bloody—though no less fascinating—than its predecessor. Read full review

75

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Neither a prequel nor a sequel. Nor is it really much of a horror movie: It's a bizarre, bloody family drama that puts its predecessor into a larger social context. Read full review

50

Village Voice

Charles Petersen

There's not nearly enough blood to keep fans of "Suicide Club," or the rest of us, happy. Read full review

50

Variety

Leslie Felperin

Although told through a cascade of flashes forward and back, the puzzle doesn't quite form a complete picture by the end, which may leave genre fans frustrated but the arthouse crowd intrigued. Read full review

50

The New York Times

Matt Zoller Seitz

This 159-minute feature doesn't quite cohere. Mr. Sono's direction is haphazard; he oversells the first half's whimsical touches and the second half's spiral-of-doom emoting. Still, the movie is worth seeing, if only to experience a small story with impossibly grand ambitions. Read full review

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L.A. Weekly

James C. Taylor

It’s telling that the freshest portions of Noriko’s Dinner Table are the flashbacks to Sono’s previous film. Read full review

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