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The Critics Comment
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The A.V. Club/A.A. Dowd
This is a movie with a lot on its mind, from art to altruism to the so-called
bystander effect, and it could function as a Rorschach test for its
audience, reflecting viewers’ anxieties and insecurities right back at
them. It’s also just really, really funny, at least for those who
can find humor in humiliation.
Wall Street Journal/Joe Morgenstern
The Square is too long at 150 minutes and occasionally falls into the sort of
preciosity it loves to deride. But the film is full of delicious rif.
Los Angeles Times/Justin Chang
The Square means to send you out of the theater arguing, and its success on that front
should not eclipse its more lasting, unsettling achievement. It affirms that
art, this movie very much included, can tell us things about
ourselves that we’d prefer not to know.
Village Voice/Bilge Ebiri
Östlund is specific and exacting as a writer and director, and within The
Square’s empty spaces, we’re forced to confront our own values, and
our own visions of ourselves.
Uproxx/Keith Phipps
The humanity behind The Square‘s jabs save it from seeming nihilistic but they
also implicate everyone watching. The film seems less nasty for
having such a well-developed protagonist, but also that much
more squirm-inducing for anyone who recognizes a bit too much of themselves
in Christian’s unexamined attitudes.
The Atlantic/David Sims
The Square is darkly amusing, but it’s also bracingly honest in its
absurdity, and that’s what kept me coming back to each one of its wonderfully
knotty scenarios even months after seeing it.
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