like Mitchell's two other features, "Under the Silver Lake" transforms a familiar genre into a unique context; It’s fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist
it's the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that only gets made when a young filmmaker, emboldened by success, moves past virtues of concision, hoping to summon the full, meandering spell of a paranoid dream. Don't hold it against him
a down-the-rabbit-hole movie, at once gripping and baffling, fueled by erotic passion and dread; ambitious and fascinating. It's the first Mitchell film that ...feels like the work of a potentially major artist