Rubber 2010

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: The potshots made at horror film audiences, and/or film audiences in general, are ... slipshod. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: By embracing irrationality as his operating principle (or at least by pretending to), Mr. Dupieux lets himself off the narrative hook. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Goofily amusing for 85 minutes, and a fitting B-feature to the E.T. comedy "Paul." Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: While it's admirably perverse for a "killer-tire movie" to be this snooty, it's about half as clever as it thinks it is. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Your enjoyment of French filmmaker Quentin's Dupieux's movie depends in large part on your capacity to enjoy the absurd. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: If "Rubber'' was half as smart as it is clever, we might be talking gonzo midnight four-star classic here. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Rubber will undoubtedly be the best film about a round, hollow serial killer released this year. Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: Nobody's safe -- least of all moviegoers -- with a killer tire on the loose. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "Rubber" has anthropomorphic, head-scratching fun with its gory B-movie trappings, silly music cues, self-referential comedy and deliberately off-kilter acting. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: A strikingly clever parody of bloody road thrillers of the nineteen-seventies... Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: Either of the film's sides - the horror comedy or the post-modernist commentary - probably wouldn't be enough to sustain the movie on its own. But with both facets taken together, writer/director Quentin Dupieux can have his cake and deconstruct it too. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Picture Monty Python writ ing an unusually odd "Twilight Zone" episode directed by surrealist Luis Bunuel. Or just empty your mind of all sense: This is "Rubber." Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: More a deadpan art provocation than a real movie, Rubber is spun out like a musical theme through a series of variations. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: An exercise in horrific absurdity that is neither as scary nor as amusing as it hopes to be. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: Pic offers auds few reasons to want to see it beyond its one-joke premise. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: An essay on storytelling and spectatorship within When Inanimate Objects Attack schlock -- one infused with the haunting aura and disillusionment of a post-Easy Rider road movie -- Rubber is some kind of miracle. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Rubber" is a silly thing. But it doesn't stop at silly. Read more