Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Fierce and disturbing, with a plot that skillfully resists following any familiar course. The film's hero fears that he's half-crazy, and for two hours Mr. Gilliam artfully keeps his audience feeling the same way.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
A Hitchcockian chase...A crowd-pleasing airport-pursuit pic. [27 Dec 1995, p.D1]Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It's refreshing to encounter a movie with a logical, intelligent approach to the dangers of zipping through time.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
As the jabbering psychotic Jeffrey Goines, Brad Pitt has a rabid, get-a-load-of-me deviousness that works for the film's central mystery: We can't tell where the fanatic leaves off and the put-on artist begins.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Scott Rosenberg
To Gilliam's quiver of attributes this new movie adds a quality that's on the endangered list in today's Hollywood: coherence.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Any laughs that it inspires will be very hollow. It's more of a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
In a movie in which time travel is used to rectify the past, it's too bad scriptwriters David and Janet Peoples didn't go through the time/space tunnel to work on that first draft again.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
A densely plotted, visually dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Mystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material.Read Full Review »
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