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Metascore ®: 77
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Variety | Ronnie Scheib

Ultimately, psychotically inventive pic is a formidable addition to the ever-evolving Maddin oeuvre.

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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

Abortion, incest, infidelity, revenge, and hockey collide at a fever pitch, juxtaposed with such frantic energy that they're pushed to the level of high comedy, funniest at its most dramatic.

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80
The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past. What makes all this nostalgia for a movie history that never happened is that, as is always the case with Mr. Maddin's work, it's executed with more love than irony and not a whit of derision.

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The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

The results are always visually arresting, while the narrative, even by Maddin standards, is completely out in the ozone.

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70

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