Evidently, "Caniba" is not a movie for everyone, both for its theme and its presentation. However, it is also a unique experience, a truly original movie that manages to shed light into the lowest depths of human nature

| Dec 2, 2019

Rather than sensationalizing their gruesome subject, they use it to hold a mirror up to the audience, and the disarming act of introspection should make us all a little nauseous.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

It's puzzling to reconcile how Castaing-Taylor and Paravel simultaneously operate on such a high level ... while also strapping themselves into an aesthetic chastity belt.

| Jan 24, 2019

A fascinating film you won't ever want to see again, if you can get through it the first time.

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Oct 25, 2018

"I can't stomach this anymore," Jun eventually remarks, as his brother pages through his illustrated confession. That makes all of us.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 21, 2018

Caniba isn't the mammoth achievement of Leviathan, but the filmmakers have cobbled together another disturbing film about human loneliness.

| Oct 20, 2018

Caniba features no explanatory text or outside voices of any kind.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 19, 2018

I consider Sagawa repellent, and the movie an exercise in intellectualized scab-picking.

| Oct 18, 2018

Throughout Caniba, there's a singularly disquieting relationship between the filmmakers' formal experimentation and their subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2018

A weirdo documentary based on a true story of modern-day cannibalism.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 5, 2018

The film is content to depict Sagawa's morbid fascinations in a bold and unconventional way, rather than question its own; it's easier to feel and sense than to try to understand.

| Sep 6, 2018

Lurid to an almost farcical degree.

| Aug 14, 2018

As disturbing as the film can be, at the end of the day one doesn't really take much away from it.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 14, 2018

Caniba will unquestionably be off-putting to the bulk of cinema-goers... yet, the intimate and difficult documentation approach taken by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor make it one of the most fascinating films of the year.

| Aug 14, 2018

Perhaps it is shocking to watch, but Caniba has little to it beyond that shock value

| Jul 20, 2018

Endlessly fascinating... there are few documentaries like Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's Caniba.

| Jul 20, 2018

Though compelling as the subject matter is, I feel Paravel and Castaing's unrelenting close-ups and bizarre editing choices, are going to make this a "hard pass" for a lot of people.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 23, 2018

The use of extreme close-up, often out of focus, invites us to focus on Sagawa's flesh and virtually press up against him, but unless you are innately phobic about cannibals this isn't a very interesting experience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2017

Ultimately, Caniba is less of a documentary than it is an art-film. It's an art-film with definite merit; it's just that your mileage is very likely to vary.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 12, 2017

Approach is abstract aesthetic of exploring transgressive desire...into fascinating look at fundamental, eternally problematical human relationship- sibling love and rivalry.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2017