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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatFilm ThreatOnly for fans of the bizarre and certainly not for those with even a faintly weak stomach. But for those meeting both qualifications: Welcome to a devious little nightmare.
- 100Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA brilliant, often grotesquely bizarre allegory on life in Hungary from World War II to the present.
- 100The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenBelongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty.
- 90L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyAll this helps to shape Pálfi’s crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder and annihilation.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterFor a film so pessimistic about mankind, Taxidermia erupts with some light-hearted technical inspiration: Cinematographer Gergely Poharnok's compositions are wickedly hilarious, while production designer Adrien Asztalos' concoctions are peculiarly gross.
- 90VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellTaxidermia sets a benchmark for body horror in the cinema.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayFrequently funny, for those who can stomach it.
- 60EmpirePatrick PetersEmpirePatrick PetersKeeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoDespite its stomach-turning images (and maybe because of), it is a daring, provocative work by a talented helmer who gets off pushing the envelope. He should be supported, no matter how outlandish he gets.