Michael Haneke’s nearly shot-for-shot English-language remake of his 1997 Austrian thriller Funny Games has to be one of the most perverse experiments in cinema history—more so even than Gus ...

There, I’ve just spared you having to sit through nearly two hours of Michael Haneke’s hectoring “Funny Games,” where he wants to teach the audience that very lesson.

Funny GamesAt last year's Cannes Film Festival, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke introduced his relentlessly cruel but brilliantly conceived and executed Funny Games as an "anti-Tarantino film ...