A crazy exposé of Romania's culture and dark history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Radu Jude’s scintillatingly outrageous drama comedy, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, roars ahead with its singular vision and incisive screenplay.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

The final sequence of the film is the finest tuned satire I've seen in years, culminating in quite possibly the greatest final image of a film you'll ever see.

| Feb 13, 2024

A shocking, provocative but thought-provoking look at society’s relationship with pornography... This is a bold film that wants to confrontational however its impact comes too late… pardon the pun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Seeks the extreme in a society of extremes to substantiate that very same society of extremes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 14, 2022

If you like your comedy bold and bawdy, with a bite of social/political critique, Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is the film for you.

| Aug 23, 2022

Trying to glean deeper expressions and emotions from above a strip of face-covering fabric is a pandemic reality; however, Pascariu turns it into tour de force.

| Aug 13, 2022

A sarcastic and anarchistic portrait of today's society and its galloping hypocrisy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

Dig deep and you’ll find critiques of Romanian society, but whether viewers outside his native country will appreciate the film – daring, daft, messy and mischievous – is hard to gauge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2022

Certainly not for the faint-hearted or easily offended, Bad Luck Banging is, however, definitely one of the most memorable cinematic experiences of the year.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 11, 2022

It's a flawed piece of cinema, but one that feels vital and one that will be looked back on as one of the defining films of the COVID-19 era.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

It's funny, and poignant, and speaks to this era of world-wide covid culture and furious political tribalism, in a way that is absolutely revelatory in its brutally honest depiction of where we are.

| Apr 1, 2022

Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn, the Romanian director Radu Jude’s exuberantly rude and bawdy new film, is a movie about us. Or rather, it’s a comedy about our world.

| Mar 14, 2022

An audiovisual exercise about our influence in our context full review in spanish

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2022

A slightly wordy but vastly entertaining provocation that suggests that a new era of totalitarianism beckons, if we're not careful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2022

A hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable, but always thought-provoking portrait of the absurdity and incongruity of today's world. Full Review in Spanish

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2022

With its debates about privacy, its street scenes of pedestrians in protective masks, and its chaotic school conferences filled with preening mothers and leering fathers, Radu Jude's comedy taps like an intubator into a culture gasping for breath.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2022

If 60s Godard had made a COVID-era riff on Harper Valley PTA, but with hardcore sex and a sense of humor equally playful and scabrously furious.

| Feb 3, 2022

Radu Jude's latest film is the cinematic equivalent of Pussy Riot, a bold, experimental and bawdy comedy about some very serious subjects... stacking up all the outrages humanity has to offer versus consensual sex and asking just which is obscene.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 25, 2022

Neither for the intellectually timid nor the prudish, Radu Jude's romp through cultural hypocrisy and the human penchant for being not just cruel, but also idiots, is designed to confront and confound with savage humor and brutal satire.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2022