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

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

No matter where audiences sit on the political spectrum, they’re liable find something discomfiting, if not enraging, in the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2024

A horror film told in bright lights and marzipan colors, a dark comedy that rarely gets around to making you laugh — writer/director Jessica Hausner’s “Club Zero” is a tough nut to crack.

| Nov 14, 2023

[Hausner] walks the satirical line more successfully, eliciting laughs from the audience during scenes that really should be uncomfortable to watch.

| Oct 20, 2023

There is no doubt whatsoever that Hausner has a clear artistic vision that she has successfully remained unwaveringly true to here, and while that is in itself impressive it sadly does not make Club Zero any the less impenetrable

| Aug 21, 2023

That's a lot to digest, and some viewers, like the kids at their mealtimes, will simply refuse to swallow it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2023

Jessica Hausner’s mannered, deadpan film buries body horror inside a satirical facade, using smart ideas about disordered eating... to tell a story about grasping for transcendence in a frightening, confusing world.

| May 31, 2023

It becomes a sharply-told morality tale, critiquing the relationship vulnerable teenagers have with their bodies, as well as how parents can use their wealth both as weapon and inducement

| May 30, 2023

An eerily appropriate conceptual foundation for a film bound to drive away those not on Hausner’s frequency.

| Original Score: B+ | May 24, 2023

But the intentionally halting, anaesthetic performances and odd pan-European casting strategy makes each family unit feel like a dramatic contrivance – much like the school itself, which never convinces as a real institution...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2023

Club Zero fails to offer anything that its predecessors didn’t provide in more succinct and thoughtful ways.

| May 23, 2023

It’s always been hard not to admire Hausner’s audacity, but this time around the boldness of her storytelling finally spills into trollish provocation.

| Original Score: C- | May 22, 2023

It looks terrific – as always Hausner’s use of colour and costume is striking and eloquent – but this is a thinly-written picture that operates on a largely superficial level.

| May 22, 2023

The problem here is that the satirical arrows don’t really land because the air is too thick with archness and day-glo irony.

| May 22, 2023

[An] exasperating and baffling movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2023

Supremely audacious and disturbing...

| May 22, 2023