81
Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksWhat a bold, beguiling and utterly unclassifiable director Andersson is. He thinks life is a comedy and feels it’s a tragedy, and is able to wrestle these conflicting impulses into a gorgeous, deadpan deadlock.
- 100VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe film is a master class in comic timing, employing pacing and repetition with the skill of a practiced concert pianist.
- 91The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica Kiang"Pigeon" is a near-perfect cap to a near-perfect trilogy, a cavalcade of oddness, humor, banality and even horror.
- 80CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleAndersson packs his film with thought-provoking deadpan humour.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThough it abounds in the kind of sardonic humor intrinsic to life’s absurdities, the film is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. In a nutshell, quiet desperation prevails.
- 80EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesIf Chris Morris had grown up in Sweden watching Jacques Tati and Ingmar Bergman films, he might be making films like this. Based on Andersson’s mordantly funny observations about the human condition, the pigeon has it pretty good.
- 80Time OutTime OutExcruciatingly funny and streaked with coal-black humor.
- 75Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoIt confirms the Roy Andersson universe as one of near-fossilized similitude, in which any effort or movement is disruptive, revealing new cracks in the set illusion of order.
- 60Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramOne of the strangest films you’ll see this (or any) year, it unsettles, bores, elates and amuses in equal measure. Not for everyone, but there’s plenty to chew on.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloFor the most part, Pigeon is very much in the same mold as its two predecessors, which is part of the problem.