this story of a dance party gone very wrong is possibly Gaspar Noe's best movie, but it's certainly the best snapshot of a talented filmmaker committed; a riveting single package
no matter how far Noe's films can go off the rails, they are always at the very least interesting to consume. And "Climax", may be the perverted masterpiece he's been working his entire career toward
it's an exciting, diverse, attractive ensemble. And there are few buttons Noe won't mash down on in an effort to keep up our interest, especially when the finale operates at such a consistent level of derangement that white noise effect threatens
Gaspar Noe's another hardcore agape-horror - visually extraordinary, structurally and formally audacious; Noe is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame
"Climax" isn't so much about the inevitability of chaos, but about the sadness of watching something beautiful fall apart. And it is never less than electrifying
"Climax" is more brilliantly deranged, in its microscopic vision of society in collapse, than anything the director has ever inflicted on us; Gaspas Noe's made a horror movie of uncommon topicality and resonance: a danceable nightmare for our now
by Barry Hertz [Globe and Mail ]
