Mandibules is a bright and optimistic comedy that vindicates friendship (and stupidity) with a lot of humor and fantastic touches. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2023

Contrary to what may seem from its surrealist approach and Manu and Jean-Gab's nature, Mandibles results in a feel-good movie about friendship. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 19, 2022

A crowd-pleasing farce thanks to the ever-increasing degree of misunderstandings, hysteria and physical comedy as the two men and a baby fly get in over their heads... best to simply embrace the absurdity and enjoy the ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

There is a specificity to the tone and filmmaking that is unfortunately not translated to the overarching story.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 5, 2022

In Mandibles Quentin Dupieux subverts expectations with a heartfelt story of friendship, love, and acceptance. ... Mandibles is a funny absurdist romp with a heartfelt center.

| Mar 8, 2022

With its short length, the film manages to reach the finish well before its welcome runs out. And a moral? Nah. Absurd dumb fun may still be dumb fun, but it's also still fun.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 5, 2022

It goes from the mundane to the weird with just a slight buzz.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 27, 2021

What if Beavis and Butt-Head reared a giant fly? There is enough comedy material here to warrant a 7-minute animated short, but even 'Mandibles'' scant 77 minutes can't sustain the joke.

| Oct 7, 2021

As a portrait of friendship, viewed through the compound eye of a mutant insect, it is multidimensional and rather moving.

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

Dupiex is on sublime form for this kooky road movie...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

It's lean and often amusing, 77 minutes of unlikely fun from one of France's most original minds

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2021

An absurdist character piece about friendship with a brilliant supporting role for Adèle Exarchopoulos as a woman who can only express herself by shouting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2021

This unusual premise is fresh enough to appeal to some, but such silliness works better in shorts than drawn-out features.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2021

Things feel as though they're happening on a whim in Dupieux's films and yet there's always a grand plan that you just can't make out until he springs it on you and here he jettisons all serious themes in favour of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2021

Mandibles is like an artsier French version of Dumb and Dumber, but with a giant fly. It's not [writer/director] Quentin Dupieux's best work, but there are enough laughs and head-shaking moments to make Mandibles an entertaining jaunt into weirdosville.

| Aug 2, 2021

For those on the same absurdist wavelength, the latest screwball silliness from French provocateur Quentin Dupieux provides some hearty laughs and offbeat charm.

| Jul 31, 2021

Mandibles may not be his best, but it's a good introduction, as well as good enough to satisfy his cult fanbase-and its silliness does lead to a big climactic payoff characteristically rich in ironic injustice.

| Jul 30, 2021

Mandibles is not going to be for everyone, but as an admirer of Dupieux, I found it one of his more charming and awkwardly funny works.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2021

By the end of director Quentin Dupieux's dryly hilarious buddy movie, you will believe in strange magic, or at least that you can build a solid and even sweet movie around such a ridiculous premise.

| Original Score: 82/100 | Jul 29, 2021

It shouldn't work, but it does.

| Jul 27, 2021