Eating Raoul Reviews
Paul Bartel's Eating Raoul is about lurid sex, murder, cannibalism and greed. It's also the best comedy of the fall season.
| Apr 27, 2018
Made on a non-existent budget, here is a kick right in Hollywood's bloated butt.
| Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2017
Nicely lays out capitalism on the chopping block. In an obsessively consumptive culture like America's, the only way for a common couple to strive is through killing, then consuming.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2012
Despite the consistency of the film's droll take on murder and mayhem, it still feels oddly uneven and skimpy, as if there just isn't quite enough meat on its narrative bones.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 9, 2012
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2007
Bartel's cult classic paved the way for many rude satires about sex, murder, and cannibalism.
| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2006
Problem is, it's so laid-back it eventually gets monotonous. If the style and pacing had been as outrageous as the subject matter, we might have had something really amazing here.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 26, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2004
The acting duo of Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel deliver a nonchalant comedic style of delivery, this odd matter-of-factly placidness in a sea of mayhem abounding...Read on->
| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 6, 2004
Eating Raoul is a lively black comedy about the aftershocks of the sexual revolution in America.
| Feb 4, 2004
It's hard to resist this sardonically riotous black comedy, even if you know the ingredients in the gourmet meal are disgusting.
| Original Score: B | Jan 3, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2003
Overrated cult comedy isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2002
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2002
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2002
Dark, wild and silly cult comedy.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 29, 2002