...a well-intentioned drama about a relationship forged on the edge of what society allows...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2021

With a gnarly nail removal that the French extremity genre would be proud of and a final scene that calls to mind the work of Claire Denis, it's safe to say that this is a film best experienced first hand rather than through a narrative summary.

| Jan 26, 2021

A deliciously devilish deadpan comedy with a surprisingly sweet final note of hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2020

Pietari Peltola's cinematography perfectly communicates the idea of two separate worlds that collapse on a visual level. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2020

An alarmingly sex-positive and quite introspective film that normalises both the professional world of BDSM-inspired employ and the clientele that indulge their senses

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2020

The success of Dogs Don't Wear Pants lies in its genuine open mindedness to sexuality which underscores its thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and humanity.

| Jun 3, 2020

A bit out there, and a bit different and there are better films out there, but Dogs Don't Wear Pants is a solid 7/10 and worth a watch if you're into gritty cinema.

| Apr 6, 2020

An erotic, blackly comic drama, Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää's third feature is as much about the transformative power of grief as much as it is about its masochistic self-perpetuation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2020

An idiosyncratic study of loneliness and loss that draws to a close in comedic, cockle-warming style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2020

It is a serious, sometimes funny, occasionally disturbing and eventually joyful (a closing club-set scene is punch-the-air good) meditation on grief, loss and the healing power whips and chains.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2020

Dogs Don't Wear Pants couldn't be any more Finnish if it were directed by Aki Kaurismaki; bone dry humor, laissez-faire attitudes, and free-range teenagers fill every frame.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 24, 2020

The script takes all sorts of twists. The changes of pace and mood feel natural, and even when things get heavy, it's funny. Some viewers will groan with pleasure, some pain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2020

[I]ts third-act shift into a weirdly upbeat black comedy about a middle-aged man finding his BDSM-themed bliss feels a little unearned.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2020

Beneath it all is the dippy grief-stricken sweetness of Truly, Madly, Deeply or Sleepless in Seattle - albeit with added whips.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2020

A surprisingly joyful and darkly comic exploration of grief, trauma and desire.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 21, 2020

Dogs Don't Wear Pants makes 50 Shades Of Grey look like kindergarten. A funny, provocative and strangely moving treat. The safe word is excellent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2020

This sex-positive story of a drowning man's re-emergence into life is miraculously both bleak and funny - though the viewer might feel less passive if there were as much focus on what drives Mona's S as Juha's M.

| Mar 19, 2020

A stylish, sombre and occasionally unwatchable watch (unless you're into dental porn, of course).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2020

This is a very hardcore film - there were a couple of moments when I couldn't look, and was longing for the safe word to make the violence stop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2020

The feel-good feel-bad movie of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2020