The Dinner's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Moverman balances the potential for staginess with his flowing cinematic bravura; he keeps surprising you, and he gives the drama a dash of poison elegance.
The Wrap
At once a darkly comic social satire, a pitch-black moral thriller and an earnest plea to recognize mental illness, 'The Dinner' is a seven-layer dip overflowing with compelling individual ingredients that, when mixed together, make the finished dish awfully difficult to digest.
The Hollywood Reporter
A high-carat cast...tears into the juicy material with relish for the most part, but by trying to keep the prolonged sit-down affair from becoming excessively stagey, Moverman adds too many distracting flashbacks to maintain the original's hard-hitting and well-aimed gut punch.
The Guardian
The sclerotic staginess of 'The Dinner' means this is one to miss.