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Funny Games

Michael Haneke gets overly intellectual with this thriller about a pair of clean-cut Droogs who kidnap and torture a privileged family in their picturesque vacation home. As usual, Haneke has rational reasons for his movie’s violence (implied and otherwise), but he still crosses lines here more often than he justifies crossing them.

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