Aronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.Read Full Review »
Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
The tremendous power of Aronofsky's filmmaking -- its omnivorous omnipotence, if that makes any sense -- has the curious effect of diluting its emotional impact.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
May be an elaborate stunt, a bungee jump, but even so, it's forceful enough to leave a rare palpitating residue.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Becomes increasingly unwatchable -- not just bleak but punishing, as if the director wants to fry your circuits along with his characters'.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort. That, and not its unsavory subject matter, is what makes it bummer theater.Read Full Review »
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