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Metascore
26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerIt’s a surprising and often thought-provoking effort from a filmmaker who has never chosen to take the simple path, confirming Larrain as one of the more genuine talents working in cinema today.
- 100The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangA bold, blunt, yet clinically intelligent film that provokes as much for its dark humor as for its righteous outrage, it's all at once a gripping thriller, an incendiary social critique and a mordant moral fable.
- 100VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasThose willing to enter The Club will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain’s fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.
- 100The Club sees the film-maker at his most masterful, steering the picture through complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria, even when the characters do.
- 80CineVuePatrick GambleCineVuePatrick GambleThe Club is an enthralling parable that's calibrated to shock and amuse in equal measure.
- 60Screen DailyDan FainaruScreen DailyDan FainaruOne thing missing in Pablo Larrain’s new movie is a touch of Luis Bunuel. Without it, the fierce sarcastic attack he launches against the Catholic Church looks a little too much like a self-motivated settling of accounts, terribly angry and lacking a perspective that would put it all into the right context.
- 50Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardPablo Larraín's thematic interests shift toward constructing a didactic tongue-lashing against the Catholic Church disguised as speculative fiction.
- 50New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThe Club offers plenty of stifling, agonized atmosphere, but it’s all penitence and no redemption.
- 50Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlIt's all well acted, especially the interrogations, and its specifics haunt and disturb. But as it aspires to parable it slumps into dark melodrama, with competing scenes of mob violence and individual characters freighted with so much allegoric significance that they stop feeling like people.