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

What works so well in Mandibles is how it's set up as a basic heist movie, using very familiar elements, so familiar they're almost tired cliches, before going completely off the rails into random demented territory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2021

Maybe this picture is just a string of wacky ideas, with no deeper meaning. But for those who take the ride, it's an hour and 17 minutes they're unlikely to forget.

| Jul 23, 2021

"Mandibles" is short, odd and original, a weird comedy for people who like weird funny things, and it further establishes Dupieux as an ingenious and unique artist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2021

Every frame encourages letting one's guard down, just so the story can roll into a ball of sloppy chaos and make an appropriately goofy mess.

| Jul 22, 2021

"Mandibles" is sweet, simple, and oh-so-very stupid - a stupidity that's oddly liberating, like making up ridiculous scenarios with a pal over bong hits.

| Jul 22, 2021

The results can be frustratingly slight and maddeningly amorphous, but it's bracing to have absolutely no clue where a movie is headed.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 21, 2021

None of this, of course, should work. But give Dupieux credit for commitment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2021

The idle one-thing-after-another-ness of Mandibles is evocative, disturbing, and moving.

| Jul 19, 2021

In the otherwise stale world of French comedies, Dupieux stands so far out in left field that he's become a genre unto himself.

| Sep 23, 2020

What makes "Mandibules" so refreshing is that, just as its anti-heroes don't care about how they are supposed to behave, Dupieux has an airy disregard for how a chase thriller or a horror movie is supposed to proceed.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2020

The really new news of "Mandibles" however, is, where in the past Dupieux's surrealism always had a cynical, sinister, even murderous undercurrent, here, he lets himself be cheerful.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2020

Dupieux milks all the comedy he can from the slender concept, and knows not to outstay his welcome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2020

"Mandibles" is as brazenly and riotously stupid as it sounds, but with a chill, dopey sweetness that makes it stick.

| Sep 7, 2020

If the "Basil the Rat" episode of Fawlty Towers had been written and directed by Luis Buñuel, the result might have been something like this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2020

A rollicking, rambunctious tequila-dream of a movie...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2020