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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 78Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiAustin ChronicleJosh KupeckiIf you are unfamiliar with Dupieux’s cinema of meta shenanigans, Keep an Eye Out serves as a solid starting point. For those already indoctrinated, it’s another welcome dispatch from cinema’s premier purveyor of perplexing paradoxes.
- 70The New York TimesKristen Yoonsoo KimThe New York TimesKristen Yoonsoo KimDupieux pulls off this bizarre procedural in a lean running time while hitting the notes of darkness and drollery just right.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenThe delightfully daft, dialogue-driven result makes for a languid farce that mischievously flips a funhouse mirror on jaded audiences to welcome, if fleeting, effect.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloLike a Saturday Night Live sketch that airs in the show’s final 10 minutes, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out tosses around ridiculous comic ideas as if secure in the knowledge that few people will ever see them.
- 63RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenFor all that goes into making a movie—the prolific Dupieux wrote, directed, shot, and edited this one as with his previous films—the impulsive, scattered storytelling here almost feels like an unrewarding and contrarian statement to such hard labor.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenQuentin Dupieux imbues a trite genre scenario with a Kafkaesque brand of comic existentialism.