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Funny Games (2008)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Christy Lemire "Torture porn for the art-house crowd." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Jim Emerson "If you liked those pictures from Abu Ghraib, you'll love 'Funny Games'!" more... D- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "Haneke may have it in for bourgeois complacency along with bourgeois moviegoing expectations, but 'Funny Games' is fundamentally a bourgeois exercise in authorial sadism." more... C   Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "A mockingly sadistic and terrifying 'watch the middle class writhe like stuck pigs' thriller." more... B+ Filmcritic.com Bill Gibron "There is no way to accurately describe how utterly reprehensible and irredeemable 'Funny Games' is." more... D- Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber "It's not exactly entertainment, but it casts a poisonous spell." more... C   New York Post Lou Lumenick "Basically torture porn every bit as manipulative and reprehensible as 'Hostel,' even if it's tricked out with intellectual pretension." more... D   New York Times A.O. Scott "Offers a harsh, exacting critique of vulgar, violent amusements." more... D   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Forceful, unforgettable, and thought-provoking." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "A vile cinematic exercise. And just because it's a conscious commentary on other vile, useless, pointless cinematic exercises doesn't make it any less vile, useless and pointless." more... D- Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "An unpleasant, unsettling, cruelly manipulative and finally hateful experience." more... D- The Boston Globe Ty Burr "There may be a way to shock the weekend lemmings into questioning why they go to 'Saw' movies, but torturing them for one's own high-minded jollies isn't it." more... C   USA Today Claudia Puig "While Haneke is attacking our culture for being drawn to violent fare, he is also relishing in presenting it to us, in prolonged and detailed fashion." more... D- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)