Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)
Mercurio Arboria (Scott Hylands) has his plans to revolutionize humanity by creating a recipe for pure happiness. (Lessons of Darkness)
Country: Canada
Directed By: Panos Cosmatos
Written By: Panos Cosmatos
Starring: Scott Hylands, Michael Rogers, Eva Bourne
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Beyond the Black Rainbow belongs to 28 collections
1. Certified weird (public: moderated by Dreamer - 37 stars)
2. Netflix Instant (public: moderated by somnivore - 28 stars)
3. Directorial debut (public: moderated by djross - 15 stars)
4. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
5. Edgar Wright 1000 Favorite Movies (Aug 2016) (public: moderated by Aron Ericson - 8 stars)
6. Criticker's Incorrect Release Dates (public - 7 stars)
7. Synth soundtrack or score (public: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 6 stars)
8. Extra scene after credits (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
9. 1980s period film (public: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
10. Science gone awry (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
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| Jan 16 |  |
YMS (Adum) | 50 27% |
| Jan 12 |  |
killgazmo | 9 40% |
| Jan 11 | joao.neto | 70 72% |
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Kerfoot32 | 30 23% |
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El99can | 70 30% |
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mert2707 | 45 8% |
| Dec 24, 2019 | DocBrowne | 81 73% |
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| Dec 19, 2019 | deluxe1 | 70 72% |
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| Dec 12, 2019 | bubib | 60 0% |
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| Nov 13, 2019 | Scene_It | 76 73% |
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| Nov 01, 2019 | Motham | 85 65% |
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cascade | 42 7% |
| Oct 30, 2019 | HoneyB | 48 7% |
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hotsake | 75 81% |
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Weird, Trippy, Symbolic... Not sure what it all means but I liked it.
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| Oct 09, 2019 |  |
silent disco | 80 79% |
| Oct 07, 2019 | Jesus Rollin | 12 82% |
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| Oct 06, 2019 |  |
peyrin | 80 78% |
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Cosmatos wears his influences on his sleeve, channeling late-era Kubrick, Dario Argento, and Gaspar Noe to great effect. The aesthetics broadly borrow from the ongoing conversation of how technology has changed us as a society, in the artificial settings and the Lynchian industrial hums. Indeed, when she finally escapes the facility we're greeted with two bros sitting around a fire, the classic representation of humanity's roots.
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| Oct 02, 2019 | brownwc2 | 71 69% |
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| Sep 13, 2019 | afontenot | 61 31% |
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| Sep 11, 2019 | Lunchbox1939 | 73 18% |
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metalhank | 52 25% |
| Aug 28, 2019 | StuPod | 40 5% |
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| Aug 28, 2019 | tcbyer33 | 43 24% |
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wintersunset | 70 61% |
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Gabenhurst | 80 0% |
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SheWas | 80 89% |
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goookce | 75 47% |
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fruggman | 65 35% |
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MSoprano | 75 69% |
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christof | 90 95% |
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Just loved this. So visually rich with a soundtrack that beats any Dario Argento film.
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| Jul 18, 2019 |  |
amerigo | 62 10% |
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Really glad that Maniac (2018) ripped off this movie's whole aesthetic and made something watchable. Extended shots of the same thing over and over might work if you have the eye of Kubrick doing the cinematography. Extreme close-ups of an actor reciting vaguely Freudian nonesense at the speed of a rural Southerner might work if you have a brilliant cast. This movie has neither, so this plodding synthwave bullshit is, at best, a tedious bore to fall asleep to.
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| Jul 10, 2019 |  |
antidood1 | 25 1% |
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This has everything I dislike about Blade Runner, plus no plot. In theory, a slow, artsy and trippy B-movie should appeal to me. And I'm sure that Cosmatos knew what he was doing with the artificial lighting, drony music, and abstract imagery. They all feel like capital-C Choices. But I really wasn't into it. The whole thing felt like a one-page script stretched out to a staggering 110 minutes. I'm glad that there's an audience for this movie. It's just really not for me.
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| Jul 04, 2019 | Hälleberget | 60 43% |
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siphus007 | 52 5% |
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ChrisArmada | 57 45% |
| Jun 16, 2019 | klschneider | 9 4% |
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Josh Forrest | 30 25% |
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kortan | 72 84% |
| Jun 01, 2019 | sergerde | 65 30% |
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| Apr 29, 2019 |  |
wokelstein | 69 48% |
| Apr 27, 2019 | nickyeyez | 60 18% |
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One of the strangest, obscure, but watchable films I've ever seen.
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| Apr 24, 2019 |  |
Enverovic | 6 1% |
| Apr 17, 2019 | fenrire | 87 64% |
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| Apr 16, 2019 | damil | 55 34% |
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It was interesting, but I didn’t really like it as such. It had the director’s signature style, for sure, but the actual story failed to capture me. It felt a little amateurish, for better or for worse, and more than a little pretentious. I think films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Holy Mountain (1973) must’ve been influences. Again, it was visually striking, but maybe just a little too slow and occasionally abstract for me.
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| Apr 14, 2019 | AstrosnacK | 60 0% |
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| Mar 30, 2019 |  |
plynthe | 82 24% |
| Mar 29, 2019 |  |
offlineoz | 40 24% |
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Great ideas but poor execution. The neon-soaked visuals accompanied by the sinister music was great. However, it was a chore to get through. If this film had a more coherent plot and less meandering narrative, it would have been more effective.
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| Mar 21, 2019 | KingBread | 50 19% |
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| Mar 17, 2019 | theseknees | 86 91% |
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| Mar 17, 2019 | lillakniven | 40 27% |
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| Feb 22, 2019 | sandman248 | 90 81% |
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FranchWhooki | 76 59% |
| Feb 10, 2019 | pchendrix | 40 15% |
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| Feb 10, 2019 | ldiozom | 8 22% |
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punpun | 61 33% |
| Feb 03, 2019 | fuffyfaf | 92 86% |
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| Feb 01, 2019 | bior | 88 82% |
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Piconomicon | 75 38% |
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Mpython | 5 28% |
| Jan 11, 2019 | ZgGost | 30 0% |
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| Jan 04, 2019 | leoh | 80 72% |
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| Jan 04, 2019 | mrmiffy | 60 46% |
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| Jan 04, 2019 | Musto | 20 7% |
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| Dec 31, 2018 |  |
telbis | 70 50% |
| Dec 24, 2018 |  |
Yiannos | 63 50% |
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A promising debut that offers a vivid retro-futuristic audio-visual experience. It's clearly derivative (i.e Carpenter, Lucas, Noe, Lynch, Merhige etc), but unlike most of his peers, Cosmatos is trying hard to find new images rather than simply recycling ones from the past as is now customary. As an aesthetic achievement it's extremely accomplished; he creates a hermetically sealed, narcotic dreamlike world full of ominous sounds and images, but his script betrays him in the final act.
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| Dec 05, 2018 | mathiasa | 20 3% |
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Curb | 50 41% |
| Nov 26, 2018 | zachsavage | 76 38% |
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| Nov 26, 2018 | Furious79G | 85 43% |
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jackinthebox | 60 36% |
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Darkling | 65 52% |
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sally_storm | 100 98% |
| Nov 14, 2018 | Iglian | 40 19% |
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| Nov 09, 2018 |  |
porzano | 76 93% |
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Moribunny | 65 64% |
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A debut deserves an A for Aesthetic. It doesn't so much feel like a retro throwback tribute as an honest-to-god continuation in the footsteps of 1960s-1980s cult oddities like "Eraserhead", "The Trip" and "The Prisoner" (series). Missteps include half-baked characters, a stretchy midsection, and a Voldermort-looking dude who reenacts stale slasher-like killings in one scene. But its bold preference for psychedelic mood over explanation presages the director's much better sophomore film, "Mandy".
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| Oct 25, 2018 |  |
Gnalkthere | 69 25% |
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Hey duuuuuuuuuuuuuude Nice references maaaaaaaaaaaan Where'd you get them from the Toilet Store?
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| Oct 24, 2018 | vesuvius | 53 35% |
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| Oct 23, 2018 | Devious | 76 55% |
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paah | 70 58% |
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electriccafe | 60 41% |
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VengefulKBM | 60 36% |
| Sep 25, 2018 | Tristan3019 | 0 18% |
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HKi | 65 32% |
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| Sep 22, 2018 | martin! | 60 9% |
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| Sep 17, 2018 | sosadetz | 65 47% |
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| Sep 16, 2018 | Jorg | 60 27% |
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| Sep 14, 2018 | am4 | 81 74% |
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natebarrios | 55 21% |
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Hyperion+ | 2 17% |
| Sep 11, 2018 | oozewald | 70 22% |
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| Sep 09, 2018 | Zepheus | 40 0% |
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| Sep 03, 2018 | SEE-MIDD | 69 46% |
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FancyMike | 4 58% |
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lucas M. | 65 19% |
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WWallce4prez | 68 41% |
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Gasper Noe and Nicolas Winding Refn with some Argento colors mixed in is my best approximation of this fever dream. The majority of reviews compare the film to something else because there isn't a lot to grasp onto. Instead, this plays less like a film and more of just an experience. Very excited to see more work from Cosmatos.
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| Jul 24, 2018 |  |
Gymnopedies | 60 35% |
| Jul 15, 2018 | Parasite | 20 6% |
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fat!h | 75 70% |
| Jul 06, 2018 |  |
walkabout | 45 12% |
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An overlong video-art piece, not really a movie.
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| Jun 30, 2018 |  |
LordBeefJerk | 80 86% |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Dufftone | 73 49% |
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| Jun 14, 2018 | dracular | 75 66% |
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Veterini | 37 6% |
| Jun 09, 2018 |  |
karatoprak | 64 18% |
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it tries to arouse the response for visual quality, but for my non-acid state of mind it fails. story - soundtrack +
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| May 31, 2018 |  |
Sachaz | 68 58% |
| May 26, 2018 | fake_of_oz | 40 19% |
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| May 12, 2018 | AchwellFoley | 76 83% |
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| Apr 23, 2018 | chone | 80 75% |
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| Dec 20, 2017 | Systematicer | 70 69% |
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| Sep 10, 2017 | gregov_flick | 27 21% |
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| Sep 09, 2017 | Chris99999 | 85 75% |
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| Feb 21, 2017 | McFlew | 60 57% |
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MadMan | 81 40% |
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This is a music video stretched out to almost 2 hours. Some quality images and a cool soundtrack make this worth a view.
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| Feb 11, 2017 |  |
jobsbronson | 28 73% |
| Feb 01, 2017 | donquixotic | 54 38% |
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| Jan 27, 2017 | JudgeX | 55 37% |
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| Jan 08, 2017 | Sashwatadas | 93 53% |
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| Dec 27, 2016 | TheMarkle | 40 5% |
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| Dec 21, 2016 | mingliang | 50 16% |
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| Dec 11, 2016 |  |
KeanuGrieves | 92 74% |
| Nov 28, 2016 |  |
terrymac | 68 52% |
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Not quite sure what to make of this one after an initial viewing. It is stylish and ambitious, certainly, and has a certain "off" atmosphere augmented by a dynamic synth score. It held my interest more effectively at the start than it did at the end, but I definitely enjoyed it. Weirdly appealing in a way that reminded me of Berberian Film Studio and Under The Skin, as well as shonky 70s sci-fi films. Worth a re-watch, I reckon.
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| Nov 26, 2016 | jerrywarton | 66 58% |
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| Nov 18, 2016 | scififan87 | 1 14% |
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| Nov 16, 2016 | Ronin22 | 53 55% |
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| Nov 06, 2016 | Ethereal | 65 61% |
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vildanden | 30 15% |
| Oct 30, 2016 | carlitt | 40 3% |
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Nice setting doesn't save this movie from being terrible. Lots of useless scenes make the film go on with almost no plot, and still, when something happens, it's impossible to understand it and follow what's going on.
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| Oct 21, 2016 | imdbtv | 63 43% |
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domys | 60 68% |
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kubrickvari | 43 14% |
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WarrenWho | 80 79% |
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| Sep 25, 2016 | GJKeane | 70 26% |
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| Sep 22, 2016 | DarkArt | 50 0% |
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| Sep 20, 2016 | mixjuice | 64 11% |
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| Sep 16, 2016 | terteyyk | 65 28% |
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| Aug 26, 2016 | sinefilcocuk | 8 83% |
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| Aug 11, 2016 |  |
igormachete | 32 3% |
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Giant babies? Devil? Aliens? Mummified zombies? Black goo? Triangles? What's happening?
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| Jul 17, 2016 |  |
moss piglet | 4 29% |
| Jul 12, 2016 | ribtin | 68 50% |
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IDYmilkshake | 45 36% |
| Jul 04, 2016 | MrWhiplash | 90 69% |
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MUBIvotes | 32 41% |
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Batty | 75 59% |
| May 21, 2016 |  |
begoniabol | 24 26% |
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Has some nice visions that get boring quickly, so this whole movie is 1 giant borefest, lacking a plot, and has a terrible ending.
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| May 13, 2016 | markodjurovi | 66 12% |
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| May 04, 2016 |  |
tinatinas | 50 9% |
| Apr 28, 2016 |  |
djross | 30 13% |
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Theme seems to be how 1970s counterculture ideas about spirituality and a new way of living turned bad in the 1980s, victimising the following generation and leaving them bereft, an idea not without merit. Looks great, sounds good, but unsubtle performances and weak writing become decreasingly tolerable as themes and narrative fail to develop. Ultimately the film loses all sense of direction and fatally careens in extreme slow motion towards an absurd ending that is simply lazy and meaningless.
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| Apr 26, 2016 |  |
SickForay | 70 57% |
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7thpein | 59 26% |
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| Mar 08, 2016 | dimsuz | 85 18% |
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Kaan Kavusan | 70 57% |
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Kapplin | 40 30% |
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dziabok | 53 11% |
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kurisu1974 | 60 31% |
| Jan 10, 2016 | GARN | 80 90% |
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| Jan 02, 2016 | exitexitquit | 10 10% |
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| Jan 02, 2016 |  |
Hawkins | 88 86% |
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A cautionary tale of new-age spirituality and addiction expressed as catatonic haze with an abruptly sober punchline. The "Noriega" jacket is a key point of this alt-reality. It's light on narrative but rich in aesthetic, notably the THX-1138-inspired sterility of Arboria and blaring retro-synth soundtrack that Drive only wishes it could marinate in. I thought it was excruciatingly slow and dull on first watch, but I find it more addicting on each viewing. The sentionauts have called.
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| Dec 31, 2015 |  |
TraverseTown | 55 37% |
| Dec 28, 2015 |  |
snallygaster | 53 53% |
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Interesting mix of art-house surrealism and B-movie / genre references. The plot, such as it is, becomes much more discernible on second viewing but not much more satisfying.
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| Dec 26, 2015 | anonm | 100 98% |
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| Dec 26, 2015 |  |
drcioni | 88 75% |
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anacoluthon | 75 19% |
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eCitizen | 30 20% |
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Idiotic & boring. Mostly a surreal presentation that is dull & uninteresting. Bad special effects are just an out of focus camera shaking up & down. Despite the supposed premise to finding pure happiness, this finds none. Just a lot of kooky imagery, foreboding music, & question with no answers. She kills with her mind. The doctor has some strange mind control machine. Weird, but not in a good way. This might be good with the sound off during a drinking party, perhaps. Crap storytelling.
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| Dec 19, 2015 |  |
bobyang | 65 37% |
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robot2xl | 70 8% |
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myminorplace | 75 70% |
| Nov 29, 2015 | Ashetails | 30 24% |
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| Nov 22, 2015 | nakada | 80 61% |
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| Nov 01, 2015 | stalebread | 66 19% |
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| Oct 31, 2015 | szstepen | 86 82% |
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Boonmee | 60 9% |
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| Aug 21, 2015 | dbaldzhiev | 78 49% |
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| Aug 20, 2015 | Alec | 79 21% |
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max805 | 60 34% |
| Aug 05, 2015 | mistafurley | 97 79% |
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| Jul 20, 2015 | NonyaBeezWax | 80 96% |
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