It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This film falls straight into its own trap. It appears to ridicule the pretentious nonsense that is conceptual art. But in so doing, it results in a disconnected run of perplexing scenes which are as incomprehensible and absurd as the art it tries to satirise. There is no story structure nor even the faintest suspicion of a plot. Instead we endure 2.5 hours of disconnected scenes. Many of those are obscure or disjointed, presumably to impress. What was the purpose of the tug of war with the used condom? What was the purpose of the strange man impersonating an ape?At the end, I felt cheated. There was a potentially good film somewhere in the mess. And it's high time some of the crap that is admired as Art was more brutally satirised. But The Square has missed its target, if that's what it was aiming at.

More of a collection of social scenario skits, reminiscent of Portlandia, than a coherent story.

Movie depicts a quintessential modern society tale in impeccable 1970-1980's style of film making. A must watch if you are a fan of those movies.

In lesser hands, this movie would have been a 'dog's breakfast', but in the hands of this director, cast and crew (and it is both sumptuously shot and edited) it pulls you into the protagonist's life with both arms. If you have ever had a 'bad week', then this is the film for you to commiserate with the protagonist as every one of his 'up's' is accompanied with a resounding 'down' (I don't think this is a spoiler to give you this little bit of information). Well worth your time and the effort to watch it (it is over two hours long after all...) and sometimes nothing seems to be happening until it does. I gave it a "9" to pull up it's overall average up to what I think is a first class film worthy of your attention if only scores above "8" get you interested.