Kontroll: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 72 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

The hooded phantom who keeps popping up to shove passengers onto the tracks is the only figure in Kontroll with even a semblance of purpose.
Full Review » 7 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

60

Like many modern allegories, Nimrod Antal's tour de force of grime, fluorescence and destinationless velocity is more concerned with atmosphere than meaning.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Visually stylish surrealist drama.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

These pieces come together, but they don't always fit.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Bulcsu never surfaces from the underworld. Neither does the movie -- literally or figuratively.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

Nimrod Antal's defiantly mordant comedy is smart, imaginative -- and nearly impossible to watch.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

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Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

You don't need a deep, dark forest to tell an unsettling fable about the struggle for freedom or the battles waged between the shadows and the things that glow.
Full Review » 7 years ago
David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

There must be a lot of smart people out there in America ready for a youthful explosion of talent and temperament. This is their picture.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Kontroll is the first work by a director who is clearly gifted and who has found a way to make a full-bore action movie on a limited budget.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

You won't forget it soon, though it may give you at least some qualms about using the subway, especially if you're ever in Budapest.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Richard Nilsen Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

As a group of episodes, the movie keeps our interest not by linear plot, but by finely drawn characterizations.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Eddie Cockrell Variety (Top Critic)

first-timer Antal manages to shoehorn a surprisingly affecting layer of metaphysical unease into the tale.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

Kontroll calls itself a thriller, and you will agree if you are excited by scenes of bored inspectors arguing with sullen straphangers.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

Full Review » 3 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

75

It's the whooshing terror that fries your nerves to a frazzle.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

Kontroll is that singular success, a thoroughly satisfying, rambunctious entertainment that also subtly works on philosophical and spiritual levels.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bruce Feld Film Journal International

Even though we spend the entire film underground, Hungary has never looked more buoyant.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

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Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

59

Though the film is crowd-pleasing enjoyable, it never fully brings in enough light to its underground setting to completely satisfy as a fully realized work.
Full Review » 7 years ago
AV Club

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Steve Schneider Orlando Weekly

[A] nimble dark comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI)

88

This is supremely confident filmmaking for a newcomer, and should give Antal a one-way ticket to bigger things.
Full Review » 7 years ago