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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR (cg) "...shockingly tedious... we watch routine doomy decadence while staring, literally, at the back of the hero's head. It's endless." (Read the full review...) 63 words, 10/15/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "This is your brain. This is your brain on a Gaspar Noé movie.... with beauty, mild and sharp jolts, and mesmerizing camerawork, he tries to open the doors of perception." (Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a spectacular head trip... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 09/24/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...daring, visceral -- and a revolutionary break from the strictures of traditional filmmaking. See it if you dare." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 09/24/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...as pure, outlandish outlaw cinema it's undeniable.... The long takes truly astonish for their detail and fluid craft." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 09/24/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: WEAK "Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be strapped in front of a strobe light for two and a quarter hours? 'Enter the Void' and wonder no more." (Read the full review...) 522 words, 09/24/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...audacious, yet anachronistic. It actually belongs to a primitive genre of cinema known as 'phantom rides'... Those spectacles of motion were the mindblowers of their era." (Read the full review...) 739 words, 09/24/10 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Director Gaspar Noé's provocations and preoccupations seem gratuitous and laughable, even when the film is legitimately unnerving... But, dude: I could stare at this movie for days and not get tired of the sensation." (Read the full review...) 802 words, 09/22/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a whiz-bang marvel of swooping and soaring camera work and psychedelic imagery... 160 minutes is one long trip..." (Read the full review...) 519 words, 12/31/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...by turns self-conscious, ludicrous, maddening and yet exhilarating - yes, there's no getting around it, we can't keep our eyes off the screen - exhilarating." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 12/31/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...just as ugly and cruel as Gaspar Noé's previous features but comes coated in a sheen of psychedelia and spirituality." (Read the full review...) 248 words, 12/30/10
Jen Chaney, Washington Post: POOR (cg) "Just say no to this bad trip." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 11/12/10 Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "Gaspar Noé wrenches viewers out of their comfort zone and into a visceral trip as unforgettable for its ideas as for its provocative imagery." (Read the full review...) 432 words, 10/01/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "One-hundred-proof unfiltered weirdness.... a film you'll remember for a lifetime if it doesn't send you screaming out of the theater." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 10/22/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an astonishing work of cinema, alternately brilliant and disgusting, naïve and inspired, tedious and sublime. No one other than Gaspar Noé could have made it. No one else would have wanted to." (Read the full review...) 1,000 words, 11/12/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: MODERATE (cg) "...akin to an LSD trip: psychedelic, hallucinatory, dreamlike, sweaty and lengthy." (Read the full review...) 428 words, 12/10/10 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...a 'psychedelic melodrama,' follows the addled adventures of a young French dope dealer and his sister, a pole dancer, adrift in a drug-soaked and neon-blasted Tokyo." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 10/08/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the stunningly gifted French writer-director has grabbed viewers with the manic glee of a thrill ride operator and immersed them overwhelmingly in episodes of sociopathy, incest, rape, murder, vengeance, drug abuse, and various other sins and degradations." (Read the full review...) 698 words, 10/29/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "As dazzling and exciting as 'Enter the Void' can be, it's ultimately too arty, indulgent and repetitious for its own good. There's a lot to like here, but there's a lot to leave behind as well." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 11/05/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "Watching it may not always be a pleasurable experience, but there is something about Noe's relentlessness that worms into your psyche, the way aspects of the work of David Lynch and David Cronenberg sometimes penetrate." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 12/03/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Director Gaspar Noé's provocations and preoccupations seem gratuitous and laughable, even when the film is legitimately unnerving... But, dude: I could stare at this movie for days and not get tired of the sensation." (Read the full review...) 802 words, 09/22/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "At times stunningly beautiful, at others shockingly banal... passes over the mystery of death for mysteries more mundane and generic." (Read the full review...) 172 words, 11/11/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...goes far out on a limb stylistically, challenging the limits of human perception... the film falls squarely and triumphantly in the tradition of drug-addled midnight visions like 'El Topo' and 'Liquid Sky.' No acid required." (Read the full review...) 396 words, 09/23/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...bold and punishing.... Even though 'Enter the Void' is stylistically wearying, and stupefyingly transparent as a disquisition, you can't doubt that Noé is a dazzling synthesizer of image and sound." (Read the full review...) 821 words, 09/19/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...just as ugly and cruel as Gaspar Noé's previous features but comes coated in a sheen of psychedelia and spirituality." (Read the full review...) 248 words, 12/30/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "This is your brain. This is your brain on a Gaspar Noé movie.... with beauty, mild and sharp jolts, and mesmerizing camerawork, he tries to open the doors of perception." (Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a spectacular head trip... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 09/24/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...powerful, hallucinogenic journey will strike some viewers as a flat-out masterpiece and others as flatulent garbage. It actually has elements of both... a daring, thrilling, awful and wondrous film that pushes so hard at the medium's boundaries it sometimes becomes exhausting." (Read the full review...) 1,002 words, 09/24/10
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: POOR "Not clever enough to be truly pretentious, Gaspar Noe's tiresomely gimmicky film about a low-level Tokyo drug dealer who enjoys one long, last trip after dying proves to be the ne plus ultra of nothing much." (Read the full review...) 835 words, 05/26/09 Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "It goes without saying that the film is violent, but its obsessive emphasis on sex and drugs -- to the point that most viewers are going to feel utterly bludgeoned by both -- makes it virtually unwatchable..." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 05/22/09 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a spectacular head trip... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 09/24/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "This is your brain. This is your brain on a Gaspar Noé movie.... with beauty, mild and sharp jolts, and mesmerizing camerawork, he tries to open the doors of perception." (Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10
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