The Square's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
Eventually it loses a bit of focus and misses some narrative targets which have been sacrificed to those admittedly extraordinary set pieces.
The Hollywood Reporter
What?s perhaps most impressive about Ostlund?s evolving style as a filmmaker and social commentator is his compulsion to enrich every scene he creates with a multitude of tones and nuances across the serio-comic spectrum. He?s like a virtuoso chef driven to try increasingly wild combinations of spices and ingredients; often the result is terrific, once in a while it?s too much.
Variety
Ostlund, at his best, is a heady and enthralling filmmaker, but unfortunately, he has so much on his mind that he is also, at his weakest, a shapeless and didactic one.
Vulture
Most of The Square elicits a chuckle or an embarrassed groan.
Indiewire
The director excels at generating a nervous energy around his character?s mounting desperation, and the movie?s intermittently engaging for that reason alone.