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DOGTOOTH (KYNODONTAS)Movie Reviews
Greek language drama about three siblings who have been isolated from the outside world, about which they have been fed misinformation their entire lives by their parents. Cast:Anna Kalaintzidou, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Christos Stergioglou, Mary TsoniDirector:Giorgos LanthimosRelease Date:June 25, 2010DVD Release:January 25, 2011From:Kino InternationalLength:1 hr 34 min
JANUARY 25, 2011
Dogtooth (Kynodontas), Very Good Reviews Key Cities
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) played in key cities to very good reviews. • A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, "...evocative and haunting... Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: 'What was that?' 'I don't know. Weird.' 'Yeah.' 'Weird.' " • And Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "...takes the concept of home schooling to squirmy extremes.... like a car crash. You cannot look away." More Reviews Below...
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a bizarre fantasy that takes the concept of home schooling to squirmy extremes.... like a car crash. You cannot look away."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 536 words, 07/08/10
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (11 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...evocative and haunting... Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: 'What was that?' 'I don't know. Weird.' 'Yeah.' 'Weird.' "(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 668 words, 06/25/10
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "...uncomfortably odd, unsuccessfully wry... personal dynamics shift and jealousies abound, but not enough for the airless atmosphere to ever rise above irritating."(See all of Joe Neumaier's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 195 words, 06/25/10
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...ends up feeling somehow like a dodge and a sidestep. As a film, it's pure and singular, but it's not quite fully formed enough to be what one could call truly visionary."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 207 words, 01/07/11
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD(cg) "...one of the weirdest movies I've seen in a long time.... The director, Yorgos Lanthimos, believes in minimal dialogue and sound and maximum irony."(See all of V.A. Musetto's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 273 words, 06/25/10
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD(cg) "Shot in a calm, dispassionate style, acted with supreme deadpan authority... a paradox, at once blunt and ambiguous... it gets under your skin..."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 306 words, 07/09/10
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a bizarre fantasy that takes the concept of home schooling to squirmy extremes.... like a car crash. You cannot look away."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 536 words, 07/08/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "Giorgos Lanthimos lays out the rules largely through action rather than exposition, which allows 'Dogtooth' to play as a richly satisfying, blackly comic mystery..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 249 words, 06/23/10
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Director Yorgos Lanthimos skillfully doles out tantalizing pieces of information, keeping the viewer in a constant state of suspense and wonder."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 298 words, 01/28/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "Any metaphor or theme is left for us to divine.... a cautionary tale of helicopter parenting just as easily as a sarcastic response to Shyamalan's 'The Village.' "(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 328 words, 01/27/11
KEY CITIES (6 Reviews)
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...a movie that makes you think, even if those thoughts consist mainly of reevaluating the definition of family dysfunction."(See all of Stephanie Merry's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 499 words, 02/11/11
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Mixing the delightfully twisted imagination of Luis Buñuel and delicious black humor of Roald Dahl... holds a cracked mirror to our most cherished beliefs about family."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 168 words, 12/03/10
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD(cg) "The film's casual, cruel approach to humor, its unadulterated though not unstylized approach, and its relatively isolated setting recall the sardonic mordancy of Dogme 95."(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 631 words, 07/30/10
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...one of the most dysfunctional families in recent cinematic memory... it's difficult to take your eyes off it, as you wonder what impossibly bizarre thing might happen next."(See all of David Lewis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 268 words, 09/03/10
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD(cg) "A harrowing and chilly film about a family that David Lynch or Todd Solondz would find uncomfortably dysfunctional..."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 225 words, 03/11/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (5 Reviews)
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "Giorgos Lanthimos lays out the rules largely through action rather than exposition, which allows 'Dogtooth' to play as a richly satisfying, blackly comic mystery..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 249 words, 06/23/10
Scott Tobias, AV Club: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...evolves into a tense, disturbing, often savagely funny struggle between chaos and control.... an exhilaratingly unpredictable experience, and not an easy one to shake."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 407 words, 06/24/10
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "Any metaphor or theme is left for us to divine.... a cautionary tale of helicopter parenting just as easily as a sarcastic response to Shyamalan's 'The Village.' "(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 328 words, 01/27/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...evocative and haunting... Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: 'What was that?' 'I don't know. Weird.' 'Yeah.' 'Weird.' "(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 668 words, 06/25/10
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...ends up feeling somehow like a dodge and a sidestep. As a film, it's pure and singular, but it's not quite fully formed enough to be what one could call truly visionary."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 207 words, 01/07/11
MOVIE INDUSTRY (5 Reviews)
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "The ingeniously constructed screenplay shows how wrong or irrational teachings can quickly spiral out of control, with increasingly disturbing humor..."(See all of Boyd Van Hoeij's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 583 words, 05/19/09
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Disturbing family psychodrama takes the sheltered-childhood model to twisted extremes, offering just enough black humor to make it unclassifiable."(See all of John DeFore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 462 words, 06/14/10
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...ends up feeling somehow like a dodge and a sidestep. As a film, it's pure and singular, but it's not quite fully formed enough to be what one could call truly visionary."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 207 words, 01/07/11
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...a truly shocking, darkly humorous expose of a dysfunctional family... Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard category of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival..."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 533 words, 12/20/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...evocative and haunting... Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: 'What was that?' 'I don't know. Weird.' 'Yeah.' 'Weird.' "(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 668 words, 06/25/10
16.3 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Dogtooth (Kynodontas)'s reviews are separated by an average 16.3 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (23 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Dogtooth (Kynodontas)'s reviews cover 26.5% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 8,409 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 366 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 59 Days After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Dogtooth (Kynodontas)'s reviews on average broke 59 days after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Dogtooth (Kynodontas)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (23 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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