80
Excruciatingly funny and streaked with coal-black humor.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
If 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.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Though 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.
60
One 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.
75
Slant Magazine by Jesse Cataldo
It 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.
91
"Pigeon" is a near-perfect cap to a near-perfect trilogy, a cavalcade of oddness, humor, banality and even horror.
80
Andersson packs his film with thought-provoking deadpan humour.
60
For the most part, Pigeon is very much in the same mold as its two predecessors, which is part of the problem.
100
The film is a master class in comic timing, employing pacing and repetition with the skill of a practiced concert pianist.
100
What 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.