Carnage

Daily Mail“One of the funniest and most intelligent films of the year so far...” All the way through you’ll have been laughing at their childishness, casual cruelty and ugly self-righteousness. It’s hideously accurate...

Total Film “The film whizzes past in peaks of exasperated laughter...” A four-way of furious awkwardness played with consummate skill. But, given the talents involved, couldn’t we expect something just a little more substantial?...

Empire“Irresistibly malicious...” A quartet of pitch-perfect performances from a cast uniformly at its career best, together with a director on shockingly mischievous top form, this is a shot of pure, exhilarating cinematic malice...

Film4“Consistently funny and refreshingly nasty...” A comedy of malice, Carnage is a tight film expertly paced by Polanski who demonstrates a talent for tickling ribs that will probably come as a surprise to many...

Radio Times“Short, sharp, very funny...” The four leads are all on top form, but worthy of special mention is Christoph Waltz's Alan, a cynical corporate lawyer whose nihilist world view gives the film its title...

The Telegraph“The characters are inarguably caricatures...” But Polanski’s cast have a lot of fun fleshing them out.Polanski has given us apartment-bound carnage before, in Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant, but this is the first time he’s played it for laughs...

Time Out“It’s a captive, caustic exercise in confinement and hysteria... ” It’s an acting face-off, yet Polanski harnesses any thespian one-upmanship to make it integral to each character’s need to dominate a deteriorating scenario...

this is london“Isn't just very funny, it is also highly pertinent...” If you want to see four performances that in other years might well have each won an Oscar nomination, Roman Polanski's short but sharp adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play God of Carnage is the film you shouldn't miss...

Guardian“Roman Polanski's chattering-classes drama just isn't nasty enough” At its best, this is a spiky satire on contemporary bourgeois correctness; at its worst, it's a strained piece of upscale dinner theatre, a self-conscious controversy item by, for and about the chattering classes.

The Independent“The whole affair is so airless, and joyless...” that you soon resent every minute it's detaining you. Carnage is a satire about an upper-middle, cosmopolitan elite who believe themselves to be smart and liberal – and it's designed for the very same people.