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Drama about a man who is reunited, after years, with his sister and then dies from a gunshot wound, but continues to watch over her from the afterlife. Cast:Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse KuhnDirector:Gaspar NoéRelease Date:September 24, 2010DVD Release:January 25, 2011From:IFCLength:2 hr 17 min
JANUARY 25, 2011
Enter the Void, Good (Not Great) Reviews, Mixed Key Cities
Enter the Void played in key cities to good not great reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Ty Burr wrote in the Boston Globe, "...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." • And Jen Chaney wrote in the Washington Post, "...the most excruciating sit in recent cinematic memory." More Reviews Below...
Enter the Void Positive Reviews (27 Reviews, reviews below)
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."(See all of Owen Gleiberman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 63 words, 10/15/10
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (11 Reviews)
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."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...spectacular... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 482 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."(See all of David Edelstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 522 words, 09/24/10
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...audacious, yet anachronistic.... belongs to a primitive genre of cinema known as 'phantom rides'... Those spectacles of motion were the mindblowers of their era."(See all of Bill Stamets's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 739 words, 09/24/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...seems 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."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(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... could make a stronger impact in a shorter running time..."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(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."(See all of Stephen Cole's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 556 words, 12/31/10
Jen Chaney, Washington Post: POOR(cg) "...the most excruciating sit in recent cinematic memory. And no, the fact that it's intentionally excruciating doesn't make it less excruciating."(See all of Jen Chaney's reviews...)(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."(See all of Tirdad Derakhshani's reviews...)(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."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(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."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(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... There is a line between mind-blowing and mind-numbing, and Noe crosses it early."(See all of Clint O'Connor's reviews...)(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."(See all of Walter Addiego's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 447 words, 10/08/10
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD(cg) "...immerses viewers overwhelmingly in episodes of sociopathy, incest, rape, murder, vengeance, drug abuse, and various other sins and degradations."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 698 words, 10/29/10
Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD(cg) "As dazzling and exciting as it 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."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 298 words, 11/05/10
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD(cg) "...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."(See all of Rene Rodriguez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 732 words, 12/03/10
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...seems 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."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(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."(See all of Peter Keough's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 172 words, 11/11/10
Scott Tobias, AV Club: EXCELLENT(cg) "...goes far out on a limb stylistically... falls squarely and triumphantly in the tradition of drug-addled midnight visions like 'El Topo' and 'Liquid Sky.' No acid required."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 396 words, 09/23/10
Ed Gonzalez, Slant: MODERATE(cg) "Even though the film is stylistically wearying, and stupefyingly transparent as a disquisition, you can't doubt that Noé is a dazzling synthesizer of image and sound."(See all of Ed Gonzalez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 821 words, 09/19/10
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."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...spectacular... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 482 words, 09/24/10
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...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..."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,002 words, 09/24/10
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: POOR "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."(See all of Rob Nelson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 835 words, 05/26/09
Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...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..."(See all of Peter Brunette's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 683 words, 05/22/09
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...spectacular... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(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."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,140 words, 09/24/10
23.1 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Enter the Void's reviews are separated by an average 23.1 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Enter the Void (27 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Enter the Void's reviews cover 29.4% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 15,371 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 569 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Enter the Void Coverage, Volume & Length (27 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 3 Days After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Enter the Void's reviews on average broke 3 days after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Enter the Void's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Enter the Void (27 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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