A commandingly propulsive post-Soviet delirium about a divorced comics artist coughing and hallucinating his way across a grim, chilly night/day of detours, confrontations, memories and fatherly responsibilities.

| Oct 6, 2022

All of it [is] staged and shot with conscientiousness and ingenuity rarely seen in films from any country anymore. It is indeed a phantasmagoria, and perhaps an overload.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2022

Paints a bleak, wistful, tragically funny portrait of a man, a people, a world.

| Sep 22, 2022

Kirill Serebrennikov’s blackly comedic fantasia paints a none-too-rosy picture of Russia, or its Soviet past festering just beneath the surface.

| Sep 20, 2022

By turns impressive and oppressive, Petrov’s Flu combines technical razzle-dazzle with obtuse storytelling. Bravura and baffling in equal measure.

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

It’s possibly the most Russian thing ever created, and it’s most certainly not a soothing viewing experience. But there’s something grimly fascinating about it nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2022

This nostalgia could be cloying, but Serebrennikov has a wonderfully sly sense of humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2022

"Petrov's Flu" is mainly a work of pure, gross, mindboggling cinema, a 146-minute exercise in sustained lunacy, irony and catastrophist thinking that no amount of Nyquil can soothe.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 20, 2021

Watching the tumultuous and punishing Russian extravaganza Petrov's Flu is like suffering a physical assault in a dark alley, or having a load of garbage jammed down your throat and piled on top of you until you just can't take it anymore.

| Jul 19, 2021

This is some flu: it plunges us into a deeply strange and unsettling version of reality. It's undeniably confusing, but it leaves you with a powerful, if imprecise, feeling of a society that's sick from something far worse than a passing virus.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2021

For all its obvious bravura technique, I found this film indigestible, overextended and weirdly oppressive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2021

At once palpably visionary and abrasively obscure, an intensely expressive work which is also deeply embedded in a Russian context.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2021

[A] hallucinatory, deeply confusing but skillfully executed and mesmeric work...

| Jul 13, 2021

Alternately exhilarating and exhausting film... A formidable piece of filmmaking.

| Jul 12, 2021

Tearing at a mile a minute through an extravagantly surreal vision of Yekaterinburg in the maddening grip (or grippe, if you will) of a flu epidemic, "Petrov's Flu" is a rowdy, exhilarating return to top form for Serebrennikov.

| Jul 12, 2021