Smoking Causes Coughing

...moves unhurriedly from moment to moment, which makes its perpetually strung-out jokes even funnier.

...can seem frivolous, even cynical, but it carries an explosive under its ironic surface.

Trying to explain “Smoking Causes Coughing” is like recounting a dream: The person listening might not care, and it might not mean anything to them, but it leaves a weirdly unforgettable impression on the spectator.

...Dupieux follows his more ridiculous impulses by letting the midnight horror anthology stay up until Saturday morning, blending gore and guffaws in an amiable, breezy comedy.

...one of the most formally daring and unexpected films of the year. It’s probably one of the funniest.

It’s all so giddily bizarre, the film deserves a health warning of its own: will induce (entirely pleasurable) lightheadedness and shortness of breath.