Slack Bay is not always funny, but it's truly unique and in the long run, more emotionally powerful than might be expected.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2017

Slack Bay is a very weird concoction that won't be to everyone's taste. Yet this superbly photographed fabrication is, ultimately, strangely compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2017

The surreal, discombobulating Slack Bay sees the director take an even weirder, Pythonesque turn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2017

The film looks and feels like a dreary day at the beach, with bleached lighting and too-long takes that do nothing to temper the relentlessly silly burlesque farce.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2017

Slack Bae.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2017

By encouraging famously subtle actors to give recklessly over-the-top performances, the director distances their characters sharply from the world they inhabit.

| Jun 16, 2017

It features Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini giving deliberately hysterical and bonkers performances as posh people in a small coastal town in early 20th-century France who are being tormented by local fishermen-turned-cannibals. Wacky, eh?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2017

It's spellbinding, not least, to watch Dumont give pastoral comedy the full welly after basing his early, austere career on giving pastoral tragedy hardly any histrionic "booting" at all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2017

"Slack Bay" is devoid of any emotional satisfaction, and laughs come few and far between, perhaps because the humor is so French-centric.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2017

With its bestial themes, conceptual humour and cartoonish thespians, this consciously arch farce will intrigue some and infuriate others.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2017

Strictly for those with a strong stomach and a decidedly bent outlook.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2017

A French absurdist comedy that feels wholly original, whether it's your cup of tea or not.

| May 1, 2017

One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.

| Apr 27, 2017

Though the combination of social critique and unhinged laughs doesn't always jell, the movie is quite gloriously a thing unto itself, even as it draws upon obvious inspirations.

| Apr 27, 2017

The film's charms are substantial, but what makes Slack Bay so original and enticing is also what makes it fairly alienating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2017

This is a spirited and often gorgeous film (Guillaume Deffontaines, the cinematographer, makes the eyes of even the most ostensibly unattractive characters supernaturally beautiful), but it's not an easy one.

| Apr 20, 2017

Slack Bay is a comedy primarily in theory. More intriguing than involving, the movie uses the conventions of slapstick to undermine the rich as well as the poor.

| Apr 20, 2017

Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2017

A high-pitched, ululating fart of a movie, coming from an art filmmaker once known for his miserablism.

| Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2017

Slack Bay is nothing if not anti-authoritarian, and while its anarchic energy is appealing in small doses, it becomes tiresome when it turns toward cruelty.

| Apr 19, 2017