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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanIncreasingly violent (although always distanced), The Outskirts is at once appalling and bleakly humorous.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe Outskirts, handsomely directed by Petr Lutsik, will grab people's emotions. The dark and bitter comedy deals with a corrupt, post-communist Russia.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyLutsik takes aim at reckless capitalism --- as well as the increasing Westernization of Russian filmmaking --- with a disquieting allegory that in both themes and aesthetic is an audacious throwback to pre-WWII Soviet cinema formalism.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumGrim, phantasmagoric view of recent and not-so-recent Russian history.