24
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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30Village VoiceAbbey BenderVillage VoiceAbbey BenderIts emotions prove curiously inconsistent, hinting at darkness but never committing fully.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungA film about ordinary people doing nothing is a tricky thing, quickly numbing the audience to sleep unless the screenplay is electrifying and the actors greatly appealing. Unfortunately, neither of these is true of Rafael Nadjari’s A Strange Course of Events, which is anything but strange and eventful.
- 30VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinToo often the pic feels as if it’s killing time to pad itself out into feature length.
- 30The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe New York TimesDaniel M. GoldMr. Nadjari, who wrote the screenplay with Geoffroy Grison, may have been intending a minimalist character study, but even so, he has abdicated his responsibility: Too much of this family drama is left to the audience to fill in.