Dogtooth [148 points / 12 votes]
"Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos's revelatory drama about cats, lamps, incest and video tapes, is that rare transgressive drama that's able to transcend the stigma of the taboos it employs onscreen and truly dazzle even the most unadventurous viewers with its filmmaker's craft, sense of humor and limitless imagination. Lantimos has grown leaps and bounds since Kinetta (2005), an equally mysterious film about willfully assimilating corrupted information and the creation of a new language through bastardized rituals. Dogtooth is similarly just as much about how we absorb information as it is about the end of the concept of family -- a fantasy of dizzyingly indeterminate meaning. (Just try to limit its meaning to a single coherent allegory) It immediately exudes raw intellectual and visceral power in virtually every scene. And the best part is, while watching and then later endlessly rewatching Dogtooth, one realizes: Lanthimos is at the height of his powers as a storyteller and is only just getting started. Long live the new flesh." - Simon Abrams
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