"Rumours is a unique political satire."
— Joey Magidson, Awards Radar
"A wildly entertaining shaggy-dog satire."
— Guy Lodge, Variety
"A wickedly funny, surreal, cerebral and Buñuelian political satire."
— Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
"Maddin pulls an exceptional trick, crafting characters we care about even while we gleefully root for their demise."
— Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"Rumours is black comedy cloaked in gloriously lurid colours. Combining elements of slapstick with absurdism and pointed commentary on the precariousness of the contemporary world."
— Nadine Whitney, InSession Film
"Theater of the absurd meets the cinema of high fantasy... builds into an increasingly bizarre, razor-sharp satire of the fearful, status-quo-oriented elites running seven of the world’s biggest economies."
— Siddhant Adlakha, Truthdig
"This triumphantly stupid ensemble comedy... casts the G7 leadership adrift in a B-movie, essentially turning the heads of the leading liberal first-world democracies into the Mystery Machine gang from Scooby-Doo."
— Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"It’s the funniest flick yet from Canada’s surreal satirist, Guy Maddin, who gets a huge assist from co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson. It also has the greatest commercial potential for a Maddin movie, which could be the weirdest thing about it."
— Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"Standouts are Blanchett (who execs, together with art-horror favourite Ari Aster), who summons a sly mix of flirtatious gaucheness and bureaucratic decorum, and Dance, who gives his crusty best as a seen-it-all doyen prone to nodding off."
— Jonathan Romney, Screen International
