Upstream Color Reviews

Movie Reviews

• with its fragmentation and mysteries, "Upstream Color" offers itself up as a puzzle as well as a philosophical toy that you can spin and spin until the cafe closes and kicks you into the night

  by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

• this enigma-delivery system from a sharp mind has enthralling moments but becomes a bit enervating in its self-seriousness

  by Farran Smith Nehme [New York Post ]

• there's a thin line between what's truly mysterious and what's totally bogus

  by Stephanie Zacharek [Village Voice ]

• there is an undeniable pull to the stream-of-consciousness storytelling filmmaker Shane Carruth ("Primer") uses in "Upstream Color."

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• no one is going to explain any of this for you-and the slightly snobby implication of Upstream Color is that explanations are for suckers

  by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]

• it's the long-awaited follow-up to the equally sophisticated 2004 time travel drama "Primer" by American indie wunderkind Shane Carruth, and it's every bit as good

  by Simon Abrams [Chicago Sun-Times ]

• but for many audiences, this is just a slightly odd movie that soon becomes incomprehensible, leaving them with nothing but a headache. And for some critics, I suspect, another chance to add a trendy something to the emperor's new clothes closet

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• "Upstream Color," an erbp release, is not rated but contains some violence and some bloody and disturbing images

  by Christy Lemire [Associated Press ]

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