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  Review by chris ★★★★ 13

  guy behind me, when the square came on screen: "that's the square"

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½ 15

  Much better than The Circle.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 1

  So you've got a heavy-handed, sorta clumsy piece of art concerning inclusive spaces, unexamined privilege, and performative allyship about people who make and promote heavy-handed, sorta clumsy art about inclusive spaces, unexamined privilege, and performative allyship rather than confront their own hypocrisies. So there you go. This works more than it doesn't mostly because it's very funny and feels spontaneous even though it's almost absurdly schematic and can't stop bluntly explaining itself.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 2

  thought i would love this, but it has about 6 different movies crammed into 1 and didn’t do much for me. although, the two main elisabeth moss scenes are absolutely hilarious

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 14

  "I CAN TAKE THAT!
  GIVE IT TO ME, CHRISTIAN!"

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  Review by iana ★ 9

  this yall’s palme d’or winner?

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  Review by David Jenkins ½ 21

  I would like to say, for the record, that this may be one of the very worst films I've ever seen. Not a single idea, image, motif, theme, joke, performance or shot connected with me. Irritating, reactionary and incoherent, this is, in a best-case scenario, a 3 minute short hammered out to an excruciating 140 minutes (reportedly cut down from 160!!). The film's intended scathing critique of art world arrogance is reverse engineered on to characters and situations that are so unbelievable and insubstantial that it ends up as a bloated manifestation of the titular Square – a vapid, experiential conceptual art piece whose purpose is justified by abstruse double-speak. I watched this film and wondered whether Ruben Östland ever had contact with another human being. If he has, there is no doubt in my mind that he was revolted by them. Since seeing it, this film has stayed with me like a weeping boil. Burn the negative.

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  Review by evan ★★★★½ 1

  Right after this movie, my friend and I stepped outside of IFC Center, where the promotional team has placed a version of a Square. We stood in it for a little bit, talked about the movie, and suddenly a homeless man came up to us and asked for money. I said I didn’t have any change and he walked away. 

  3D technology has gone too far

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  Review by truman ★★★★★ 12

  i’m speechless. truly something special. satire on art, classicism, power, nationalism, and so much more.

  also the first movie where i saw people fight over a used condom, use that information as you will.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★½ 3

  Bourgeois cynicism. Perfect calibrated to offend everyone and no one in the art world. Film festival establishment finally gets the hateful Haneke replacement it deserves.

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  Review by Sophy ★★ 1

  Ruben Östlund, you criminally underused Elisabeth Moss, apologize or I will create chaos with you.

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  Review by Disgustipated ★★★★★ 3

  I was reading about the artist Santiago Sierra today and it made me think of this movie. I don't know why.

  At the opening night of an exhibition, he hired a homeless man to clean people's shoes as they entered.

  Imagine being a wealthy person with some money to burn on an artwork. You rock up in your fancy car, your expensive suit and with a fat cheque book.

  Then as you enter the door you are confronted by a dishevelled, smelly homeless dude offering to shine your shoes.

  Talk about an inequality slap to the face. Here is a bare foot man without a home who is literally getting down on his hands and knees to clean the shit…