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

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

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

Strangely entertaining.

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

A parade of sadism and misanthropy.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 4, 2003

A long slog through the slough of despond.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2003

This is a lament on the human condition, free of scented roses and free of solemnity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2003

[Seidl] is a talented man with things to say. And he says them, whether or not you approve or even care to listen. We applaud that.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2003

Ultimately lacking depth or resonance, Dog Days is willfully provocative, much like a small child performing outrageous acts just to get some attention.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2003

The voyeurs in the film respond with predictable repulsion and sarcasm to Seidl's lower middle-class cartoons.

| Aug 19, 2003

This startling debut fiction feature goes to great, hectoring lengths to prove its final line: 'People are so cruel' -- a judgment from which the filmmaker himself is presumably not exempt.

Full Review | Aug 19, 2003

An engrossing and disturbing film that feels like a Dogma 95 film made by Todd Haynes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2003

Missing ... is any real feeling of compassion towards these forlorn individuals, any sense of the humanity that lies beneath the grotesque faades.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2002