A brilliant collection of stories that ultimately leaves us with the strange sensation that beyond cinematic genres, there are profound dramas that can only be explained by being alive in these times of continuous transformation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 25, 2023

There’s a morality to Meurisse’s film and characters get their just deserts as well as a sprinkling of irony.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2022

Bloody Oranges has been described as a comedy. To me that brought to mind a line from Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: “I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.” It sums up a very uneven film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2022

Bloody Oranges tackles a number of issues and political talking points that are prevalent in modern France. Producing a fascinating, if difficult, social commentary.

| Sep 13, 2022

Macron’s France gets tied to a chair in a basement and abused in this scabrous and gruesome state-of-the-nation black comedy from Jean-Christophe Meurisse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2022

Your reaction to this film will be based on your personal tolerance for irony, cynicism, and joyless negativity. People that love it will scoff, saying if you don’t like it or “get it,” then it wasn’t intended for you in the first place. Groan.

| May 27, 2022

Well-made...otherwise, it's a gratingly smug example of France's recent trend towards "extreme" cinema whose transgressions are all on the lurid surface, and say nothing much about anything.

| May 2, 2022

“Bloody Oranges” isn’t a heavy-handed polemic. It’s more a genre-hopping experiment: sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying.

| Apr 22, 2022

Proves significant in every cinematic sense.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 19, 2022

A bold, disturbing and wickedly funny glimpse of humanity's dark side, but it's ultimately too shallow to pack an emotional or intellectual punch.

| Mar 18, 2022

Bloody Oranges self implodes on itself with nearly every beam holding the feature together collapsing.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 12, 2022

Giddily witty, shocking now & then, while consistently entertaining, Oranges exposes the inanities of the privileged and underprivileged classes, sexism, and passion, while showcasing an amazing true love and a horrifying new use for microwave ovens.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 12, 2022

Few movies swap genres halfway through, and even fewer do so successfully. "Bloody Oranges" does both.

| Nov 10, 2021

Instead, a film with bizarre events strung up together with no real interest and barely any joy at all is what is presented here and unless one wants to watch something that is just blandly negative, this is not a film many will like watching.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 12, 2021

It's a film which explores ... the dual nature of human kind and the lengths we'll go to convince ourselves that we're all not the same skeleton wrapped in a meat suit traveling on a giant rock hurtling millions of miles per hour through endless space.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2021

For fans of offbeat cinema sprinkled with shocking splashes of violence, Meurisse finds an odd cross section of arthouse and exploitation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2021

The film exists only to comfort an audience, to let them know that they're smart for getting the point.

| Jul 16, 2021

Jean-Christophe Meurisse has made the perfect movie for a Midnight Screening, which is brimming with comedy and shocking content.

| Jul 16, 2021

With characters who say the unsayable and a plot which takes a sudden swerve and gleefully shows the unspeakable, this is a bracing provocation of a film.

| Jul 15, 2021

It's a film that sets out to shock, not fully realising it has the brains to deliver something much more substantial.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2021