...a satire that doubles as tightly styled, perverse entertainment—a deconstructed thriller with a bop-bop-bop drum-machine pace, which builds to one of the sourest, most hopeless downer endings in recent memory.

...art and entertainment, a thriller and an issue, and an eerily assured audience picture.

...a cinematic equivalent of a juicy page-turner, a gripping, sharp, blissfully entertaining thriller that pushes every hot-topic button you can think of to become the must-talk-about film of the year.

...may be no more than a storm in a teacup. But what an elegant, bone-china teacup this is.