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Sep 15, 2023SAPL454 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves. John C. Maxwell
Aug 07, 2022druyanreader rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
As different reviews show, this is very uneven movie. It's too long, with multiple themes and abrupt ending. Yes, there is satire of modern art and modern art cognoscenti. But it's really exploration of a smug and selfish man, who just…
Jun 07, 2022
I finally got to see this film, and I loved it. From the reviews here it seems it not to everyone's taste, and I understand why. Very weird and oddly structured, but it had me hooked from the beginning. I found the satire to be quite…
May 26, 2022eusebius rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I already knew the Swedes were self-satisfied bourgeois types who are too proud of their welfare state, I didn't need Ostlund's dreary movie to remind me. Only redeeming features are the belligerent kid and Terry Notary who plays the…
Aug 01, 2021BAE322 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I don't know what the criteria are for awarding a Palme D'Or at Cannes but if bizarre is one of them, I'll consider their selections suspect from now on.
Jun 08, 2020lindy919 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
. Don't bother. . An hour too long with peripheral stories that go nowhere. The main plot is intriguing but all the other junk will make you look at your watch every five minutes. .
Jun 05, 2020voisjoe1_0 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A winner at Cannes Film Festival - Suggests that this film is of some importance. Is it a satire of some of the ridiculous extremes of modern art? You have all seen such paintings like a black dot with a white background or a painting of…
Mar 06, 2020ablearnn rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A fascinating, well-made film. It was just strange enough to keep me interested and guessing.
Feb 23, 2020oldwestfan rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Just goes to show that going to a library doesn't make you smart. Insightfully funny as it observes human nature, contemporary social behavior, and art world pretensions. A bit too long playing out several story-lines. Well-deserved winner…
Sep 05, 2019avocadotree rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Some of the sequences run a bit long but that's what fast forward is for. It does make an impression. Wouldn't say it's a comedy though that is the section it is categorized in. If I had to guess the reviewers didn't watch the entire…
rslade
Aug 14, 2019
An art film about the pretences of the art world. (Not as amusing as it might sound.) A number of the vignettes simply end, unresolved. Obviously the writers produced scenes they thought funny, but then couldn't find endings ...
May 20, 2019
the film rather subtly shows the bankruptcy of the postmodern politically correct snowflake worldview.
May 14, 2019Lebowski007 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This film wants to "make its mark" via weirdness. Okay. But like all other films, weird films also need story-lines. There is no story here. It's random stuff.
Mar 06, 2019whatcomhillwalker rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
One strange flic. I found it slow and not very engaging but the end is worth waiting for. It is a good view into the contemporary art scene and the jaded sense of self significance that purveyors of this elite world have of themselves.…
Jan 28, 2019lukasevansherman rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I can see people would be turned off by this art world satire by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, whose previous film was "Force Majeure," but I quite liked it. Though mostly in Swedish, Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West have small parts.
Nov 16, 2018
I got tricked into watching a Swedish movie cuz Dominic West is in it. But I think I enjoyed it more than the other people here.
Nov 14, 2018JCLIanH rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Darkly comic, razor sharp, a golden skewer for hypocritical haves of the world, a lampoon disguised as an art film, a perfect portrayal of a modern coward. The Square has all of these things. I suppose that the joke is on everyone, and I'm…
Oct 01, 2018akirakato rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Written and directed by Ruben Östlund in 2017, this Swedish drama depicts the life of a curator of a contemporary art museum. It appears like an overlong experimental film of a bad student. There seems to be a deficiency in script and…
Sep 23, 2018
This dramatic comedy movie is about a curator who hires a public relations team to draw people in to his new Swedish Museum. I felt like this movie had just the appropriate amount of dark comedy that allowed it to shine without taking away…
Sep 11, 2018davem753 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I can appreciate an "artsy" or political movie as well as anyone else, but this movie just didn't do much for me. I spent the first half of the movie trying to figure out what the point was and then, when I realized it's 2.5 hours long, I…
Aug 29, 2018Janice21383 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Dust-dry humour about a museum curator's PR nightmare. We think of Sweden as a caring and civilized society, but writer/director Ruben Östlund is here to puncture pretensions and give his characters holy hell. He starts here with an…
Jul 30, 2018misatim rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
The sets are great, the story lacking, the acting is ok. Overall I found it uninteresting
Jul 14, 2018
Shame! Shame! Shame! on "The Square" for its incessantly gabby bullshit and for the guilt-trip that it tried to lay on any viewer who wasn't a homeless person. Being a non-homeless person, myself - I lived in Vancouver's Strathcona…
Jul 14, 2018Nursebob rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The “take no prisoners” approach which writer/Director Ruben Östlund applied to male machismo in last year’s "Force Majeur" now finds targets in artistic narcissism and left vs right pretensions and no one emerges unscathed. When the…
Jul 13, 2018uncommonreader rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
There are some good scenes, mostly about modern art, but overall, a little too mad.