House of Sand and Fog is a compelling, amazing, and somber film that breaks the mode of conventional storytelling. (blackfilm.com)
«Funny Games» doesn't seduce you with conventional storytelling and character development and then turn them around on you — like, say, Alfred Hitchcock's «Rear Window» and «Psycho.» (rogerebert.com)
When it falls into conventional storytelling it is a sloppy, middling action film with lazy focus, bland characters, misses all its comic beats to the point the audience was laughing more at the fart jokes, which weren't even well timed either. (filmjunk.com)