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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Taxidermia is a brilliant, often grotesquely bizarre allegory on life in Hungary from World War II to the present, a surrealist fantasy exploring the limits of the body and its desires and altogether a darkly funny comedy. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: And now a word of advice from your friendly film critic: If you go to see the Hungarian black comedy Taxidermia, don't plan to eat afterward. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Visually dazzling and outlandishly obscene. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: 'Taxidermia' undoubtedly has its own unsavoury humour and gratuitous shock value, but its extremities and enormities yield less than the sum of their dismembered parts. Read more
Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: All this helps to shape Palfi's crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder, and annihilation. Read more