Go Disturbing Film by johnboy32064 Excellent acting by everyone. Jodie deserves a nomination. I hadn't seen the play and had didn't read reviews, so I didn't recall the plot. It was a difficult film for me to sit through--not because...
So-so The stakes are lost on me by ska-triumph The movie's tagline - comedy of no manners - along with the pedigree play and cast should've been a winning formula. Polanski and a film 95% interior should've had tension racketed up. But he's...
Oh No! Worst movie of the year by Tom_S I enjoyed the play, but the movie just does not work at all. Four very talented actors, but all I can guess is that the director let them astray. This is supposed to be a COMEDY, but instead they...
88 Boston Globe | Ty Burr The film's an even four-hander, with awful behavior spread evenly among the characters and spellbinding performances by the quartet of co-leads. Read full review
88 Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea Think "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," but then think fun. Read full review
80 The Hollywood Reporter | Todd McCarthy Snappy, nasty, deftly acted and perhaps the fastest paced film ever directed by a 78-year-old, this adaptation of Yasmina Reza's award-winning play God of Carnage fully delivers the laughs and savagery of the stage piece. Read full review
65 NPR | Bob Mondello But it does mean you're always aware that you're watching filmed theater - a scripted pressure-cooker where playability is being allowed to trump plausibility as theoretically cultivated adults morph into savages - going from civility to carnage in 80 minutes flat. Read full review