The Lobster is an uncanny and bizarre cinematic experience, and, if this is Lanthimos’s starting point, he may prove to be one of the most original directors of the twenty-first century.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

He isn’t a director for everyone, but I love his style of filmmaking. The Lobster especially is one of the most unique films I’ve seen in a decade. The premise is not only bizarre, but it features some wonderful irony about the absurdity of relationships.

| Aug 8, 2024

Lanthimos' particular style, characterized by intense camera movements and exquisite shot compositions, is reminiscent of the best Kubrick. [Full review in Spanis]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 11, 2024

Whatever specific satirical targets the film-makers have in mind are perhaps a bit oblique, but as a tragicomic study in the mechanics of love, it's an undeniably thoughtful and often potent piece of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2024

I really love THE LOBSTER its one of the most unique movies i've seen.

| Aug 7, 2023

A sharp, claustrophobic study of human relationships, The Lobster puts humanity’s obsession with coupling on full display before it is bloodily dissected and rendered horrifyingly unrecognizable.

| Aug 1, 2023

With an extremely absurd plotline and tragically funny deadpan acting, The Lobster may just be the most emotionally moving film you see this year.

| Dec 15, 2022

Despite its slow third act and frustrating end, “The Lobster” is uncompromising, provocative, and highly original at every turn.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Watching Lanthimos' characters suffer existentially and sometimes physically under his application of strange rules and decorum recalls the very best of Luis Buñuel, except far more accessible on an emotional level.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 11, 2022

The defining sensation is that of watching your favorite football team run up the score on an inferior opponent and then letting the game slip away during the second half, requiring a field goal in the closing seconds to escape with the victory.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Unique and refreshingly original both in concept and style.

| Original Score: 4 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

Colin Farrell is paunchy and hilarious in a surreal, unpredictable comedy...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Characters in the film still abide by the social conventions, but their desire to be with someone and not be lonely is stronger than anything. It's the most romantic movie I've seen in a while.

| Feb 14, 2021

Lanthimos has become one of Greece's most internationally prominent directors. It is revealing that he has no comment to make about the ongoing crisis in Greece except in regard to the financial difficulties it has caused filmmakers like himself.

| Feb 11, 2021

The humor remains strong, but the narrative turns cryptic, which might disconcert even those audiences looking for a bitter, deadpan experiment in metaphorical erraticism.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Lanthimos's first English-language film combines mischievous satire with the perverse logic of dreams to create a compellingly bizarre, decidedly off-kilter comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2020

Reformulating the concept of arranged marriage for his own demented purposes, Lanthimos' The Lobster should ensure a healthy interest for the innovative director abroad.

| Sep 30, 2020

Amid all the chilling images of high-concept cruelty, the Greek auteur reveals the self-inflicted shackles that hold us back from finding real happiness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

The Lobster has those weird and interesting ideas that come out of Yorgos Lanthimos's mind when he examines the human condition in a very abstract way, but I find it a bit predictable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 26, 2020

It just kind of fell apart for me.

| May 4, 2020