I find the movie mind-blowing, though it will likely alienate as many viewers as it impresses.

| Aug 2, 2013

It's difficult to feel transported by the impossible when the film's world is already so clearly governed by the arbitrary.

| Jan 18, 2013

Inarticulate characters, long blank stares, forced camera angles and allegorical nonsense make up this pretentious study in quasi-religious ennui.

| Jan 18, 2013

Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure.

| Jan 18, 2013

Despite its pictorial intensity and the extremity of some of its scenes, the film proceeds in a mood of detachment, turning the suffering physical beings under its scrutiny into abstractions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 17, 2013

Hors Satan is stark, strange and uncompromisingly personal. It's also vivid and unforgettable.

| Jan 17, 2013

As its title suggests, Satan grapples with the existence and nature of evil in the world, but it's hard to take such weighty matters seriously when they're explored with all the subtlety and grace of an anti-abortion pamphlet.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 17, 2013

Dumont's rigorous, serious attention to the mysteries of good, evil, and faith rewards those willing to be confounded.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 16, 2013

Ultimately less an arty provocation than a secular invocation, Outside Satan seems almost helplessly exploratory, an honest account of groping for grace.

| Jan 15, 2013

The promise Dumont once showed has ossified into unholy shtick.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2013

The problem with "Outside Satan" is that the filmmaker has remained faithful to expectations without enlivening them.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 14, 2013

Bruno Dumont's employment of his bucolic French backdrop here attends to Hors Satan's muddying spiritual ambiguity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2013

The film develops a powerful hold on the watcher as it progresses. But beware, it takes you on the weirdest of metaphysical journeys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2013

To paraphrase Shakespeare, madness in gifted ones, or eccentricity at once errant and forthright, must not unwatched go.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2013

Bruno Dumont's film-making is just so fluent, unnerving, gripping; he is entirely unique.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2013

Dumont's picture, as frustrating as it is profound, elicits the unease which passeth all understanding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2013

Bleak and compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2013

The result is mesmerising, beatific, disturbing, and leaves us pondering our own beliefs in a way few films do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2012

Not everyone will want to go back for more, but those who do will find rich rewards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2012

Using both longueurs and repetitions, Dumont has a way of holding our attention by refusing us the expected answers.

| May 20, 2011