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As its title suggests, Satan grapples with the existence and nature of evil in the world, but it's hard to take such weighty matters seriously when they're explored with all the subtlety and grace of an anti-abortion pamphlet.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Despite its pictorial intensity and the extremity of some of its scenes, the film proceeds in a mood of detachment, turning the suffering physical beings under its scrutiny into abstractions.
80
Bleak and compelling.
58
The problem with Outside Satan is that the filmmaker has remained faithful to expectations without enlivening them. It's a curious exercise unworthy of his expertise, but then he may realize as much.
40
The promise Dumont once showed has ossified into unholy shtick.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Dumont's rigorous, serious attention to the mysteries of good, evil, and faith rewards those willing to be confounded.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film "Humanity" – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
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The vagueness won't win Dumont new fans, but his enigmatic allegory of intertwined good and evil does linger in the mind.