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Stephen Holden, New York Times: You don't have to agree with its premise -- that middle-class marriage equals sadomasochism -- to respond to the bravura comic glee with which the director lays it out. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A horrific black comedy -- a devastating view of bourgeois marriage rendered in a delirious baroque style. Read more