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A.O. Scott, New York Times: Roy Andersson's film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure. It is also extremely funny. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: No one views the world like Roy Andersson does. That fact alone is enough to recommend the Swedish director's latest collection of interconnected, often single-take vignettes. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Essentially indescribable, You, the Living offers little help to anyone trying to get a handle on it in terms of a traditional narrative. But it can be quite funny if you're susceptible to Andersson's curious way of capturing the human comedy. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: You, The Living, if only by virtue of a more intimate scale than Songs, benefits from a lightness of touch and even a thin sliver of optimism in some sequences. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Made of 50 short, stiff scenes of human behavior, shot as dispassionately as wildlife, Andersson is either stretching the definition of cinema or returning it to its roots Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: "Keaton-esque" hardly begins to describe this brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor), who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: You, the Living suggests that we would do well to discover the joy we find in each other that so often goes along with the pain. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Presenting the funniest movie of 2009 (so far). It's You, the Living, a collec tion of 50 absurdist sketches written and directed by Roy Andersson, a talented gentleman from Sweden. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The result is in some ways a comedy with a twist of the knife, and in other ways, a film like nobody else has ever made -- except for its director, Roy Andersson of Sweden. Andersson's You, the Living is hypnotic. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Jacques Tati's puckish humor meets Ingmar Bergman's angst in this erratic, eccentric gem. Read more

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Dave Calhoun, Time Out: You won't know whether to laugh or cry. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A morosely comic symphony on the meaning (or is that meaninglessness?) of life, Roy Andersson's You, the Living can be seen as a gentler companion piece to his 2000 Cannes prize-winner, Songs From the Second Floor. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: The actors' skin is zombie-palled with plastery powder, like a fallout of some unknown catastrophe -- and the film is aptly bookended by apocalypse, a dream-premonition that's called back as a punchline. Read more