A scathing stab at class divides.

| Mar 9, 2023

The title doesn’t effectively sell how chaotically funny and eviscerating Ruben Ostlund’s social satire is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2023

He makes astute observations about small social niceties, but he pushes every awkward situation to the point where viewers gasp and wince.

| Dec 27, 2022

There’s an interesting cast of mostly unknown actors (Harrelson excepted) and the film is very well staged. Maybe the Cannes accolade was a bit on the generous side, though.

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

For Östlund, subtlety is overrated. Triangle of Sadness shows us why he has a point. It’s a spectacular demolition of modern life, a disruptor movie full of ideas and nuance, as violent in its way as a Pieter Bruegel painting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2022

Triangle of Sadness doesn’t leave audiences with much to unpack thematically, but it’s clear-eyed and hilarious about the systems that enforce societal inequities and what might happen if they were ever to unravel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2022

There is scarcely a gag or scenario that isn’t telegraphed and obvious, and yet it’s seemingly just as satisfied with its own cleverness as its targets are with their over-pampered, empty lives.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 4, 2022

Yes, the metaphor can seem very on-the-nose: the super rich, in this economic climate especially, are obscene and repulsive! But it's a film of great subtlety (really) and benefits from multiple viewings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2022

Swedish director Ruben Östlund takes no prisoners in his satirical approach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2022

The relish of the attack, the invention of the imminent mortifications and the cool precision of Östlund’s filmmaking rescues Triangle of Sadness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2022

Östlund is shooting fish in a barrel here, but if his targets are glaring, there's at least some fun to be had along the way.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 27, 2022

One already notorious sequence aside, Triangle of Sadness feels a little like gnashing at air.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2022

A messy satire about wealth that occasionally uses a scalpel — but more often a scattergun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2022

Östlund needs someone like my mother in his life to tell him it’s not clever, it’s not funny, pack it in.

| Oct 27, 2022

When a director’s brand is cynicism, every choice can seem calculated for effect over meaning.

| Oct 26, 2022

Despite Ruben Östlund’s shortcomings and imprudent tropes, Triangle of Sadness is harrowing, consistently funny, and packed with surprises.

| Oct 25, 2022

An absurd, iconoclastic riot. Ruben Östlund’s point may be blunt — yep, rich people are bad — but his telling of it is hilariously, breathlessly entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2022

This take on "Titanic" by way of "Das Kapital" and "Gilligan's Island," which admittedly does have its pleasures, has about as much subtlety as a falling coconut.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2022

It’s not so much that all the characters are so unsympathetic. It’s that they’re all so uninteresting. Caricature without gusto is shrink wrap covering . . . shrink wrap.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2022

Instead of skipping lightly over rough seas, Triangle of Sadness bobs to shore like a floating sarcophagus.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 13, 2022