51
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerKuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking.
- 90Village VoiceApril WolfeVillage VoiceApril WolfeKuso is an astounding feat of animation, humor, and practical effects.
- 67The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkSick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience.
- 63RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsKuso may often feel unproductively loud, and monotonous, but it is a head-scratcher worth contending with.
- 50Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayKuso won’t be for everybody. It’s gross, it’s repetitive, and if it has a point, it’s hard to discern. But it’s not artless. Every densely layered image of oozing pus and gassy orifices is as imaginatively rendered as it is disgusting.
- 42The PlaylistAndrew CrumpThe PlaylistAndrew CrumpIf nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother.
- If the film wasn’t so cheekily self-aware it might be literally unbearable, but every so often it references its own grotesquerie.
- 40Paste MagazinePaste MagazineIt’s probably a tautology to say that the patchwork surrealism of Kuso doesn’t hang together as a coherent experience.
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe referentiality of “Kuso,” its general snark, and even its defensive self-criticism (characters state “I hate this movie!” more than once) fail to make it any more funny or inspired, let alone any less of a shapeless chore to sit through.