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(1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 65% Fresh Page   1   "this Funny Games remake is as thrilling, as provocative, and as harrowing as the original - but only because it is a near carbon copy."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 1/5 "The only real torture here is the one Haneke inflicts on the audience."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron C "Either one subscribes to Haneke's breathless nihilism and sarcasm or you give up immediately and write the whole thing off as another Eurotrash director masturbating with his camera...my personal choice is a nap."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf A "Both versions of Funny Games equally represent the most indigestible and unsettling fictional film I've ever seen."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The movie assumes you know all this already and shows it to you anyway."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "This iteration of the slow-moving story features many of the same beats and shocks as its predecessor, which - of course - ensures that the movie also suffers from precisely the sort of overwhelming problems that plagued the original."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "Difficult to like and yet impossible to deny, Funny Games is a coldly efficient, spectacularly acted and unremittingly bleak thriller."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "Scream for arthouse aficionados."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A- "The purpose is to provoke and disturb the audience. It does this so well that you may not be able to watch it."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "I defy you to find another movie with this much contempt for its audience."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3.5/4 "We want retribution, we want reparations, we want revenge, but Haneke refuses to submit to our pleas, because he's the storyteller, and he's the one playing the games. Magnefique..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. B "Though fundamentally a nihilistic exercise, it's one with intellect and purpose behind it, and though chilly and remote, it's certainly unnerving."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek A "Like the father who, catching his son smoking, makes him smoke the whole pack in succession. But what if the kid likes chain smoking?"   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "While I would stop short of calling Funny Games brilliant, I think it's forceful, unforgettable, and thought-provoking."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "It's an intellectually and morally challenging film that'll still have you shouting at the screen and lurching in your seat with every jolt."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3.5/4 "Rests so heavily on tenterhooks of guilt that an apology is in order for admiring it."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3/5 "toso idio me to prototypo, poy aksizei na to deis mono an den to%u0384hes dei, i an theleis na to ksanadeis"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 0/5 "torture porn for the arthouse crowd"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3.5/4 "Haneke not only manipulates the audience, he goes as far as to openly mock it!"   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A- "...a masterwork of manipulation..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford C "Haneke is a hypocrite who wants to censure anyone who likes fictionalized cruelty but nonetheless takes great pleasure in punishing his innocent upper-class protagonists"   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "A fascinating meditation on the commercialization of violence in popular culture that will shock even the most jaded moviegoers into contemplating what they look for in mass entertainment."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 5/5 "At heart, Funny Games is about the totalitarianism of cinema itself."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves F "The appalling sadism it eagerly employs in the name of, well, decrying sadism, becomes all the more infuriating when Funny Games repeatedly tells us it's for our own good."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 4.5/5 "Not only a bleak and harrowing horror tale, but it's also Haneke's indictment / deconstruction of, well, bleak and harrowing horror tales."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 5/10 "No, Michael Haneke's new version does not need to exist. Regardless of its inherent quality or lack thereof, it serves essentially no useful purpose."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 65% Fresh Page   1