When Seidl uses music, it pumps brightness into his array of colour and people, whether they are moments of despair or joy.

| Mar 26, 2024

Seidl's talent for satirical invective is neutralized by his weakness for over-the-top narrative pyrotechnics-this is more warmed-over Quentin Tarantino than Georg Grosz.

| Sep 29, 2017

lewd and lurid

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Director Ulrich Seidl presents a mean spirited satire of Austrian suburbia in this ugly movie that is quite possibly the worst film (foreign or domestic) of 2003.

| Original Score: F | Apr 19, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Dark, probing, and truly disturbing, Seidl's astonishing feature debut explores angst, anomie, and alientaion in Vienna's upscale suburbs in visually audacious mode that goes beyond Todd Solondz and Todd Haynes.

| Original Score: B | Jun 13, 2006

...it's the second half that kills Dog Days.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2004

Stylistically void, intellectually vapid, narratively coarse, and exploitative of its actors in the worst possible way, the film is an abject failure on every level.

| May 15, 2004

A remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 4, 2004

Oddly compelling, disturbing -- some might say disturbed -- look at suburban life, Austrian style.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2004

Mosaic filmmaking at its most irresolute... [its few affecting] moments are antiseptic, sealed off from any larger relatable context or emotional arc.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 12, 2004

Those who know that human beings are more than just the sum of their worst impulses ... will wonder where the rest of the story went.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2004

'People can be so cruel,' one character says after finding a poisoned animal. Judging by Dog Days, so can movie directors.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 9, 2004

Strangely entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2004

What some detect as cruelty in Dog Days is in fact a bleak but deeply felt humanism -- a yearning that we might all learn to better love our neighbors and, perhaps more importantly, ourselves.

| Jan 8, 2004

A masterpiece of misanthropy...an uncompromisingly bleak reverie on human misery and meanness.

| Original Score: B | Dec 30, 2003

Just because something is degrading and disturbing, doesn't mean it's art. This dog doesn't deserve a day.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2003

A parade of sadism and misanthropy.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 4, 2003

A loser in almost all respects, boasting a parade of nudity that you don't want to see, and over two hours of conversation yielding nothing of interest.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 16, 2003