While black comedies are often known for their cynicism, this one maintains an unorthodox esprit de corp.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

All at once nightmarish cannibal horror and romantic comedy, good-natured fairytale, and hyper-stylised allegory of French wartime collaboration and resistance, this collective debut from Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet is dizzyingly difficult to pin down

| Oct 18, 2023

While the subject matter is bleak, Delicatessen is a charming, unique movie and a truly unique piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2023

An existentialist fricassee of irresistible comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2022

Thriving on eccentricity, the film also utilizes an artistic entwining of music and sound effects, tinged with a spectacularly compelling atmosphere of unease.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Funny, imaginative, ghoulish and rather beautiful.

| Jul 19, 2018

If we take the idea of a romantic comedy set in the ruins of a dead society and dressed up with cannibal horror seriously at all, it's hard to see how it could turn out better than this.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 6, 2016

The movie, take it from me, is a lot more fun to sit through than to describe in a single sentence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 21, 2013

Bizarre, brilliant, but wayward in its dnouement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2013

With its molelike inhabitants, its sprawling war between flesh-eaters and lentil-men, its achingly sweet love story and surrealist blend of dusty antiquities and 21st-century gizmos, Delicatessen is indescribably wild.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 21, 2013

All of this is handled in a breezy, off-handed, nutsy manner, as the superb cast combines to help bring it off.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 21, 2013

Delicatessen is a fearsomely intense movie that mixes moods with formidable assurance.

| Nov 21, 2013

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro made a brilliant feature film debut with this bizarre and visually stunning comedy about cannibalism.

| Nov 21, 2013

A must see, Delicatessen is an absolute delight and a bizarrely madcap experience.

| Nov 21, 2013

What will filmmakers Jeunet and Caro serve for dessert in their next movie? Something equally daring, one hopes -- but more thoroughly cooked and a bit easier to swallow.

| Nov 21, 2013

Sweet, sinister and endearingly scruffy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2012

Like a light-hearted Brazil it conjures up imagery of such impact, and such resonant subject matter that it will (...) affect audiences for generations to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2011

Serves up a stew that seems to be made of a little of everything from one hundred years of screen comedy, seasoned with Grand Guignol. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2010

[A] black-hearted black comedy, directed as if it were a living cartoon.

| Sep 16, 2010

Dark comedy-fantasy about cannibalism isn't for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2010