Extremely bleak and icy for a "comedy," this movie takes a dry, clinical approach to exploring people's troubling behaviors and impulses; the point isn't always clear, but it's hard to look away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2025

The movie incorporates symbolic details, such as the school uniform, and ritual objects associated with the program, which contribute to the construction of an alternative world where obsession and distortion confront reality [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 14, 2024

Even though the reaffirmation of concepts may be repetitive, the film offers a critical and powerful message about reality, the absence of values, and individualism and its consequences. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Jessica Hausner likes shocking situations and characters that while certainly not extraordinary, (re)discover themselves by doing unthinkable actions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2024

While the declamatory-toned performances are impeccable, Club Zero does not work as a parody or as a film of denunciation... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2024

Club Zero defies and disturbs, echoing contemporary concerns about mental health and body control. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 2, 2024

A powerful idea with a tepid conclusion, Club Zero fails to live up to its interesting premise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 10, 2024

Much like her last film, 2019’s “Little Joe,” the idea behind “Club Zero” is an interesting one, but the execution is incredibly dry. Hausner is a visually talented filmmaker, but her screenplays are subpar.

| Original Score: C | May 25, 2024

Club Zero is often disturbing and always engaging, but it’s certainly not for everyone.

| Apr 2, 2024

Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque.

| Mar 29, 2024

Jessica Hausner’s inky black satire about a messianic teacher’s control over her students is more disturbing than amusing but definitely riveting.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 28, 2024

Jessica Hausner gets entangled in a confusing metaphor about diets and excess consumption, so concerned with form that the plot faints from malnutrition. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2024

Once again, the director composes a sinister fable full of disturbing layers in which reason ends up giving way to a kind of collective madness that is a living image of our times... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2024

The movie's aesthetics overlap with its ironic cynicism that while attractive for a second, it becomes repetitive and irritating... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 25, 2024

An intelligent satire on miracle diets, the relationship with social classes, and the environmental conflicts... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 25, 2024

Jessica Hausner's new work is transgressive and encrypted, while featuring an outstanding performance by Mia Wasikowska in the role of a teacher who influences her students' eating disorders. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2024

As a parody of modern, and also not-so-new, dieting cult-think, the film offers nothing clever or original, and besides, it’s never funny.

| Mar 18, 2024

We don’t know everything about both who we are and what we are capable of … what if the limits we have given ourselves don’t actually exist? It’s really a philosophical film on the extreme side of the starvation and the other side of we don’t know. Wild.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2024

Club Zero is an interesting exercise in restraint, both in the eating habits it encourages for its characters and in its production. However, the world that the film built is far too intriguing to leave on the cutting room floor.

| Mar 17, 2024

Hausner's new film, "Club Zero," is an intense entry in her exploration of ideas run amok, of fantasy overtaking reality to the degree that reality itself is called into question.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2024