With Flux Gourmet [Peter Strickland] continues his streak of strange, unsettling but undeniably alluring films set in worlds unlike anything else.

| Jul 11, 2024

It’s a weird cross between Gaspar Noé’s Climax, Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and maybe even a little bit of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2023

Feels more like an amuse bouche than a full meal, while at the same time all proving a bit too much.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2023

Merges bodily functions and conceptual formalism to produce an esoteric and uniquely bizarre movie about artistic, and gastric, suffering...

| Dec 23, 2022

…a long, hard blast of Flux Gourmet’s repellent but toothless satire on foodie obsession doesn’t do much to clear the air…

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2022

Some audiences may find it difficult to stomach. Those that can will find that Flux Gourmet is an absolute feast for the senses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2022

It's not scary, at times repulsive, but not much, and when the slow-cooked catharsis comes, the journey has been so exhausting that it hardly matters, unless ASMR is your thing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2022

Flux Gourmet is a hilarious romp through a maze of culinary delights.

| Oct 7, 2022

The set-up is bonkers enough without the outrageously hilarious people who populate the story. And while it gets both ridiculous and rather yucky, the film has deeper themes that emerge cleverly along the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2022

Strickland’s signature dish of fetishism, Argento-esque horror, and British idiosyncrasy is served piping hot, even though Flux Gourmet sadly lacks something of the bite of his previous work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2022

Strickland devotees will find plenty to chew on as the film makes its strange path through the digestive canals of their twisted imaginations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2022

The writing is sharp, the lines are memorable and Christie’s turn is divine. Yet, in the end, for all its concern with the primal forces of food, sex and death, this is a slight film...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2022

None more queasy. None more strange. None more alienating. None more off-beige.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2022

A brilliant, bizarre, occasionally grotesque, horror-inflected cinematic delicacy. Sounds like a Peter Strickland film, then.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2022

What emerges is a knowingly pretentious and frequently funny exploration of the creative process from a filmmaker who sees the world like no-one else.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2022

Combining gorgeous, psychedelic visuals with deadpan humour and diva-like behaviour, it's all deliciously well done.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

Flux Gourmet is full of vivid imagery, even if some of it isn’t very palatable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2022

Flux Gourmet may not be to everyone’s tastes but there is plenty to appreciate here. It was a nice meal, but not one I’m rushing to try again.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 17, 2022

It’s a comedy baked into a heavily crusted pie. It takes some getting to, but it’s in there somewhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2022

Make no mistake, terrifying corporeal experiences abound in Flux Gourmet and its invention of a hybrid gastro-audio arts residency, but fear and suspense are nearly totally absent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2022