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73
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The brilliance of A Scanner Darkly is how it suggests, without bombast or fanfare, the ways in which the real world has come to resemble the dark world of comic books.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

Without its animation, A Scanner Darkly would have made a fine cautionary tale about drug addiction, paranoia and institutional treachery in a police state. But with a technique that turns the existing live action into a two-dimensional cartoon, the movie goes one -- maybe even 10 -- better. It becomes its own living, breathing metaphor.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

There's conspiracy here, as there is in all of Dick's books, and it wraps the film up with a moving but somewhat neat bowtie.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

This gifted writer-director isn't out to dull the masses with cinematic opium. Embedded in the visionary headtrip of A Scanner Darkly is a hotly political call to arms.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

The visual style and lethargic pace can be frustrating -- at least if you're sober -- but the animated tragedy is still a success.Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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