Final Cut

"Cinema is not dead, the film says. But it may be undead, still shuffling around and finding 13th-hour ways to turn fake blood, real sweat, and honest-to-Godard tears into something like magic."

“Hazanavicius has made a movie that tests our ideas of creative genius… this trashy, goofy, giddy, sloppy gore-fest isn’t so different from ‘The Artist’ after all.”

“Hazanavicius forges his own path… a hilarious meta-commentary on the struggles of making a remake.”

"Chaotic, filled with bad language and blood. In other words, it’s a great deal of fun."

“Downright hilarious…a bloody good time”

“Uses the coarse language of B-movies to make one re-appreciate the magic of cinema.”

"A gory pleasure... Clever and giddily entertaining"

“Sparkling and funny…”

“Fun and self-reflexive, while also leaning into its remake status for a few added laughs.”

“In its own particular and seriously deranged way, Final Cut is as much a valentine to the act of filmmaking as Hazanavicius’ Oscar-winning film The Artist was.”

“A feel-good, highly entertaining comedy… You walk out of Final Cut with a smile on your face”

“Delightfully silly… a salute to cinema so goofy and goodhearted that it is hard to resist.’’

“An entertaining piece of work… [that] may yet have found a way to breathe new life into the zombie genre itself.”